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Date:      Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:43:48 +0200
From:      "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
To:        "Jonathan Defries" <jonathan@corpex.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with DAT drive
Message-ID:  <200111231644.fANGiND18712@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBJLAOAKHHJLPLDLPIAEHBPDAA.jonathan@corpex.com>

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Hi Jonathan!

On 23 Nov 01 at 16:19 you wrote:

> I'm having problems getting a DAT drive to work on my server.
> 
> Errors are:
> 
> (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): WRITE(06). CDB: a 0 0 28 0 0
> (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:19000 asc:c,0
> (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): Write error

> Any help would be much appreciated. I've tried cleaning the drive, a new DAT
> tape, but no joy.

Is this a new drive? MEDIUM ERROR seems to indicate that there are 
problems in the physical process of writing data to tape. If using 
another tape did not help then maybe the drive is just dying of old 
age. Lasting a long time is not one of the strong sides of DAT 
drives.

Another thing to check out is the SCSI chain. Is it properly 
terminated, are all the connectors firmly seated etc.
--
Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/
* I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy


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