Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:29:16 -0600 (CST) From: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> To: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI Tape drive problem Message-ID: <2968.69.48.112.132.1075307356.squirrel@email.polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20040128162159.GA44632@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <2481.69.48.112.132.1075303107.squirrel@email.polands.org> <20040128162159.GA44632@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman said: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:18:27AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > >> I'm running 4.9-STABLE on a box with an older HP 35480A DDS tape >> drive. Recently the drive started spitting out any tape I insert. >> It simply will not accept any tape I load. I've tried 5 different >> tapes and it does the same thing. Loads, lights blink for a second >> or two, and the tape is spit back out. >> >> Is this thing dead? Given its age and limited storage capacity, I >> would imagine that repair is not a cost-effective option. > > Sounds pretty dead to me. You might be able to resurrect it by > stripping it down (I'm guessing it's way out of warranty by now...) > and cleaning out any dust and gunk from the mechanism. Cotton buds > and iso-propanol can do wonders in the hands of an adept -- however, > don't try and clean the recording heads directly, as they can by quite > sensitive. If you can, run a new cleaning tape on it a few times. No > guarrantees that this will work at all though. > > Chances are it's just plain worn out. Tape drives don't have > particularly great longevity. Hmmm... 35480A -- goggle, google. > That's a DDS-DC (somewhere between DDS-1 and DDS-2) or 2--4Gb > capacity. Yup. It's pretty much worthless, even if it was in fully > working order. Bin it, and maybe buy a DVD+RW which will have a > greater capacity and cost a great deal less to run. > I figured as much... thanks for the info. -- Regards, Doug
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