Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 00:14:12 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI tape diagnostics? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012310013570.5032-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200012310717.eBV7HpQ05828@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, David Kelly wrote: > David Kelly writes: > > Most of my toys were nuked by a lightning strike about 2 weeks ago. Let > > a local shop rebuild my computer. Not sure what diagnostics they did on > > my DDS-2 tape drive other than observe the Symbios SCSI card recognized > > it. Wouldn't be writting now if I thought it worked. > > To make a long story short it appears I had a couple of bad tapes. At > least one was in the machine at the time of the lightning strike. > Strange the drive might survive but the tape didn't. Try degaussing the tape. It'll probably be fine then. > > Drive seems to be working correctly now with a freshly unwrapped new > tape. > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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