From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Jan 26 15: 7:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF40A1502A for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:07:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Received: from d1o90.telia.com (d1o90.telia.com [195.67.216.241]) by mailf.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA26652; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:07:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from stordatan.telia.com (t3o90p87.telia.com [195.67.217.87]) by d1o90.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA10208; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:06:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from partitur.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by stordatan.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA00707; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:06:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Message-ID: <388F7DF3.5D795DA3@partitur.se> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:06:27 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn Organization: Partitur X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: sv, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Matthew Jacob , "Louis A. Mamakos" , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cannot mt retension (seagate python) References: <20000127083312.Y44457@freebie.lemis.com> <20000127092913.C53307@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 26 January 2000 at 14:33:37 -0800, Matt Jacob wrote: > >>> 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, > > That depends on what's causing the jamming. I've never seen any > relationship between jamming and head cleaning. And this taper warns with a flashing diode when cleaning is needed, and I obey the signal... :) /Palle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message