From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Jan 26 14: 3:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D02B154A5 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:03:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA52574; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:33:12 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:33:12 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Palle Girgensohn Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cannot mt retension (seagate python) Message-ID: <20000127083312.Y44457@freebie.lemis.com> References: <388DD60D.B33EAF26@partitur.se> <20000126095555.C43103@freebie.lemis.com> <200001260225.VAA10439@whizzo.transsys.com> <388F0BEA.98364ACD@partitur.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <388F0BEA.98364ACD@partitur.se> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 26 January 2000 at 15:59:54 +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > "Louis A. Mamakos" wrote: >> >> I used to use an Archive (subsequently bought by Seagate) Python DAT >> drive. Could it be a DDS-2 drive? In any case, if it is a DAT drive, > > DDS-2 it is. Sorry for the confusion! > >> then ceratinly Greg's comment applies: it doesn't do retensioning. > > Hmm... my tapes sometimes jam. I though a retension would help, but > I guess I have to calculate on a certain amount of failure. No, this is a problem with your drive. This shouldn't happen, and it's a bad sign. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message