Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 09:30:53 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: kmitch@weenix.guru.org (Keith Mitchell) Subject: Re: Archive Viper and 3940UW (bad Drive?) Message-ID: <19970706093053.ZG59677@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199707052152.PAA26449@pluto.plutotech.com> <199707060106.VAA12128@weenix.guru.org>
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As Keith Mitchell wrote: > OK, that is what I thought originally, but then given that erasing them > "seemingly" solved the timeout problem I don't know what to think. What > does erasing a tape actually do? It doesn't take but a few seconds. This sounds wrong. For me, it makes an entire pass over the medium. This is also what i'm expecting. (Tandberg TDC4222, arbitrary QIC-150 cartridge.) I know erasing a tape takes forever on a DAT medium. QICs are faster here, since the erase head is really a quarter-inch head, erasing all the parallel tracks at once. QIC tapes are normally being erased before writing track 1 (i.e., while writing from the very beginning). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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