In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Krinsky writes:
: Any ideas? I'm quite happy to help debug this one, if you have any
: thoughts on where to go with it--I need to get backups working, and
: I'd much rather not have to buy a new tape drive or switch OSes...
reboot. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/tape count=1000 bs=24k.
Then see if you still have the problem. I've seen errors like the
ones you reported, but this fixed it for me.
Also, make sure that your drive is good. I had one I had to return
because it was bad. Soren said the driver worked, and I could never
get it working for me. The replacement worked like a charm.
I also had one tape drive that I purchased at a garage sale for $0.50
that didn't have a tape head. That made writes to it fail as well...
The other one I got at the garage sale for $0.50 has worked like a
charm and it is, I think, a rebadged STT8000.
Warner
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