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Date:      Wed, 05 Feb 1997 09:59:16 +0300 (MSK)
From:      "Sergey S. Kosyakov" <ks@itp.ac.ru>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
Cc:        hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DEC TZ87
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970205100528.ks@itp.ac.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199702032116.WAA01317@yedi.iaf.nl>

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On 03-Feb-97 Wilko Bulte wrote:
>My TZ87 manual tells me that the drive has seen an excessive I/O error
>rate. The log it refers to  (log pages 2/3) use 4 byte counters
>to count the different errors (corrected, fatal etc). It seems your
>drive is reporting loads of errors to the system. Maybe NT just 
>ignores these?
>
>Questions:
>
>- is it always on the same tape?

No.

>- is there a switching power supply in the drives neighbourhood?
>  Mine became very upset when the PS transformer induced EMI into the
>  head and/or electronics.

No. My power supply is Smart UPS which is placed appr. 10 meters from
the computer.

>

>I have an NRC810. Works fine with 2.1R and 2.1.5R
>
>Did you have problems with all these FreeBSD versions?

With 2.1R. After 2.1R I installed 2.2

Sergey


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Sergey Kosyakov
System Administrator
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
E-Mail: Sergey S. Kosyakov <ks@itp.ac.ru>
Date: 05-Feb-97
Time: 09:59:16
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