Re: Tape drive "sense" errors

1998-06-15 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
> How do you clean the heads? I have got an Iomega Ditto internal 2Gb > drive. Are there head cleaning tapes available? > Johann, I have an internal SCSI tape drive (1/4"). All I do is open the system up to expose the tape heads and use stereo casette tape cleaning fluid on Qtips on the he

Re: Tape drive "sense" errors

1998-06-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Bernt T. Hansen wrote: > I get similar errors on my system when the tape heads are dirty. I do > nightly > backups and about every two months I need to clean the tape heads to get rid > of errors like these. How do you clean the heads? I have got an Iomega Ditto internal

Re: Tape drive "sense" errors

1998-06-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Great! Thanks! I was afraid something might be wrong. Although I can't get information from "mt" any more. I'll probably have to reboot. Thanks again. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- PGP Keys --- Public: h

Re: Tape drive "sense" errors

1998-06-12 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
Ossama, I get similar errors on my system when the tape heads are dirty. I do nightly backups and about every two months I need to clean the tape heads to get rid of errors like these. Hope this helps, Bernt. -- Bernt T. Hansen- Norang Consulting Incorporated --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comput