[PLUG] Re: Tape Drives and Power Supplies
Kenneth G. Stephens
kens at cad2cam.com
Sun Jan 30 18:50:48 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 10:28 -0800, Russell Senior wrote:
> Another (near closure, I think) update on the tape-backup-power-off
> behavior. We replaced the power supply with a 350W model. Since
> then, we've had no more poweroff events. Then we noticed that we
> couldn't write without errors, we replaced the tape drive. Oddly,
> during the first weeks of this saga, we *could* write to that tape
> drive, the power-off failure occurred after hours of activity. When,
> even with the replacement tape drive, we still got errors though not
> immediately, we replaced the SCSI card ($10, thank you Free Geek!) and
> with it the driver, we got a clean backup two nights in a row.
>
> I have tested the first tape drive on a different box and have the
> same problems there. Basically, the inability to write anything.
> I've tried four different shrink wrapped (though not exactly new)
> cartridges. I suppose some of this could be explained by bad media,
> but who knows?
>
>
Have you tried some aggressive cleaning of the tape head?
--
Ken Stephens
CAD 2 CAM
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