From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Jan 26 14:34:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8082514CCA for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:34:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01339; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:33:40 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:33:37 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Greg Lehey Cc: Palle Girgensohn , "Louis A. Mamakos" , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cannot mt retension (seagate python) In-Reply-To: <20000127083312.Y44457@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Hmm... my tapes sometimes jam. I though a retension would help, but > > I guess I have to calculate on a certain amount of failure. > > No, this is a problem with your drive. This shouldn't happen, and > it's a bad sign. This happens with some frequency with DAT. Regular head cleaning helps, but this is one of the reasons that a lot of people don't like DAT. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message