From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 28 13:19:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 382471576F for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:18:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id VAA15379; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:49:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.6.12) id VAA01869; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:32:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199904281932.VAA01869@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Further on tape & CAM problems In-Reply-To: <199904281806.LAA07782@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Apr 28, 1999 11: 6: 9 am" To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:32:34 +0200 (CEST) Cc: cjohnson@neunacht.netgsi.com, shocking@prth.pgs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Matthew Dillon wrote ... > The amber LED on exabytes typically means 'drive needs cleaning'. Exabyte > drives should be cleaned once or twice a week depending on how heavily > you use them. If an exabyte drive is not cleaned on a regular basis, the > transfer rate will drop steadily as the drive is forced to rewrite sectors > on the tape. Additionally, the larger gaps produced by the rewrites will > result in much less storage per tape. Very true. But a 8200 only has a green and an amber LED. Amber is SCSI activity on this model. > I dunno about the 8200. The mamoth exabytes can do 3 MBytes/sec. Any > exabyte drive should transfer up to its rating. If it transfers more > slowly, it is either damaged or in need of cleaning. The 8200 is Mark I and is dog slow compared to the later models. > When purchasing cleaning tapes, be sure to purchase the correct cleaning > tapes for the type of drive you have. Exabytes tend to be fairly sensitive > and putting in the wrong sort of cleaning tape can damage the head. Yep, stay away from the Video8 cleaning cartridges. Groeten / Cheers, | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message