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Date:      Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:59:32 -0700
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
To:        Damon Hammis <squirrel@hammis.com>
Cc:        Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tape Problems
Message-ID:  <20000804105932.A28203@athena.sea.tera.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008041326450.3285-100000@markl.com>; from Damon Hammis on Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 01:27:31PM -0400
References:  <200008041718.KAA28140@tera.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008041326450.3285-100000@markl.com>

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On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 01:27:31PM -0400, Damon Hammis wrote:
> (my crap snipped)
> 
> > 	This (or something very similar) happened to me in recent
> > 	months...   I believe your tape is bad.  I remember seeing
> > 	the ``READ(06)'' error and it finally turned out to be 
> > 	bad media.  I hope that I'm wrong here and that somebody 
> > 	else had another clue or two.
> 
> I suspected this, so I tried another tape which I had an older backup on
> and got the same error.
> 

	*Ugh*  Bad tape drive?  Bad connections? bad driver?   
	(Late last year I lost 10 months of files, &c, &c, &c, so
	I can sympathize.)

	gary




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