Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 10:13:29 -0500 From: Bill Grunfelder <wjgrun@cyberwar.com> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help with exabyte 8505 tape drive... Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971027101329.006ad56c@pop.cyberwar.com> In-Reply-To: <19971024023806.53036@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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At 02:38 AM 10/24/97 -0700, you wrote: >I'm trying to back up to this EXABYTE EXB-85058SQANXR1 07T0 tape drive >that was given to me... It's attached to a ahc2842, and using -current >on the machine... I have a generic 8mm 112m tape that I'm backing up >to, and after a while (it may be any where from 205megs into the backup >to 130megs... and I get this error: >st1: Deferred Error: MEDIUM ERROR info:0x2798 csi:0,0,0,2 asc:50,1 >Write append position error You may want to run a "good" cleaning tape a couple of times. Our exabyte drives won't accept cheap cleaning tapes (BTW, I have found the exabyte 18c to be a good cleaning tape). I was experiencing a similar error a few weeks ago, and the solution as simply to give the drive a good cleaning (three runs with the exabyte 18c). Bill ...................................................................... Bill Grunfelder System Administrator wjgrun@cyberwar.com Cyber Warrior, Inc. http://www.cyberwar.com/ (201) 703-1517
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