SCSI tape drive problem
Terry Tanski
ttanski-iRg7kjdsKiH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org
Wed Feb 4 03:49:43 UTC 2004
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Peter King wrote:
> The drives are correctly detected by the BIOS and on boot, and, as you
> can see from the above, the st.(k)o module loads without any difficulty.
> Apparently there is a "medium error" -- I suppose an error in the tape --
> detected by the kernel. And there could be. But the problem shows up on
> many different tapes, including brand-new ones (from two different manu-
> facturers).
When was the last time you popped a cleaning tape in these drives?
Terry
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