Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 13:24:22 -0400 From: "Charles Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mt/tape media: how to reuse worn media? Message-ID: <006401c267dd$0d837eb0$0301a8c0@prime> References: <20020929192113.B17046-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Hartmann, O. wrote: > Changing several parameters of a tape drive/autoloader unit seems to > remains DDS-4 media unuseable. > > I playes around with mt blocksize, mt seteotmodel and tried to do > backups either via tar or afbackup. But now several tape media seems > to force the tape drive unit to recognize this medium as "Worn Media'. > > I tried an erase, without success. It hink it is a simple 'trick' to > get back a valid tape, but how? I'm not sure this has much to do with -STABLE. Anyway, have you eliminated the obvious-- ie, have you tried using a new tape rather than ones which might actually be worn? (They do wear out; maybe the drive is correct...?) Have you run a cleaning tape recently? Could the drive be misaligned? -Chuck PS: I switched from helical scan DDS tapes to linear tape systems like DLT (or Ultrium, maybe), and I haven't looked back since. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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