Re: [Bacula-users] DDS3 streamer spits out tape time and again (offtopic)

2005-09-12 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Christoph Haas wrote: Thanks both for your comments. The drive will be replaced ASAP. I hope that doesn't mean that DDS3 is generally discouraged because it may be less reliable though. To be blunt: It _is_ less unreliable, all 4mm formats seem to be and I feel this is r

Re: [Bacula-users] DDS3 streamer spits out tape time and again (offtopic)

2005-09-12 Thread Christoph Haas
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:02:15AM -0400, Henry Yen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:14:00AM +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > First I assumed a broken tape. But then I discovered that half of the > > > tapes in my pool are spit out again without being

Re: [Bacula-users] DDS3 streamer spits out tape time and again (offtopic)

2005-09-12 Thread Henry Yen
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:14:00AM +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Christoph Haas wrote: > > First I assumed a broken tape. But then I discovered that half of the > > tapes in my pool are spit out again without being read. However > > sometimes it helps to push the tape back in a do

Re: [Bacula-users] DDS3 streamer spits out tape time and again (offtopic)

2005-09-12 Thread Alan Brown
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Christoph Haas wrote: First I assumed a broken tape. But then I discovered that half of the tapes in my pool are spit out again without being read. However sometimes it helps to push the tape back in a dozen times and with a little luck the tape gets accepted. Has anyone se

[Bacula-users] DDS3 streamer spits out tape time and again (offtopic)

2005-09-11 Thread Christoph Haas
Dear community... the question is a bit off-topic since it's not the Bacula software itself that's giving me a headache (although I assumed that first). I'm using a DDS3 streamer here with a pool of roughly 20 tapes. Recently when I inserted a new tape the streamer started reading the tape and aft