From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Mar 10 07:43:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA27089 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 07:43:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from persprog.com (persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA27080 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 07:43:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id KAA01409; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:33:48 -0500 Message-Id: <199703101533.KAA01409@persprog.com> Received: from dasa(192.2.2.199) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma001405; Mon Mar 10 10:33:36 1997 Received: from DASA/SpoolDir by dasa.ppi.com (Mercury 1.21); 10 Mar 97 10:33:36 +0500 Received: from SpoolDir by DASA (Mercury 1.30); 10 Mar 97 10:33:29 +0500 From: "David Alderman" Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:33:24 +0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Tar and Archive FT-60 trouble Priority: normal In-reply-to: <199703081902.WAA02963@tarkhil.dialup.aha.ru> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.52) Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 8 Mar 97 at 22:02, Alex Povolotsky proclaimed: > I've suddenly run into trouble: my Archive FT-60 often cannot read good > archives from good tapes. With v flag added, it works much better. The thing > appeared quite suddenly (most likely after CMOS failure). All my attempts to > tune CMOS properly failed. If this is a 60Meg QIC tape drive then perhaps you should be diggihn a hole to bury it in! Seriously, all of the old FT60's we had failed with the same problem: the rubber roller on the tape drive motor melted. Yours is almost certainly beginning to get soft even if that is not the problem. Take a look at your head too. I doubt it's your hardware. ====================================== When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose fantasy. Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com ======================================