[PLUG] Re: Tape Drives and Power Supplies

Pete Lancashire nix at petelancashire.com
Sun Jan 30 19:00:23 UTC 2005


How old is the drive, or do you know how many tapes have
been through it ? The head(s) may be worn out, or hopefully
just dirty.

Of the tape types I've used in recent years, DDS and LTO,
they all have cleaning cartridges.

-pete

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 10:28, 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?
> 




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