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тАО08-31-2001 08:25 AM
тАО08-31-2001 08:25 AM
I ask one tape question and it spawns quite a few more.
Never used tape much, but slowly getting there.
Is it the number of tapes that are inserted?
The feet of tape that go past the head?
I have a Colorado PC tape drive and it never says that it needs cleaning. It probably needs cleaning also, but how? I've never seen any cleaning carts for it.
Never used tape much, but slowly getting there.
Is it the number of tapes that are inserted?
The feet of tape that go past the head?
I have a Colorado PC tape drive and it never says that it needs cleaning. It probably needs cleaning also, but how? I've never seen any cleaning carts for it.
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тАО08-31-2001 08:31 AM
тАО08-31-2001 08:31 AM
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Hi John,
It varies but it is typically the number of 'soft' errors; i.e. those in which a read error was detected but that the drive was able to recover from. When some threshhold is reached the warning is displayed.
Clay
It varies but it is typically the number of 'soft' errors; i.e. those in which a read error was detected but that the drive was able to recover from. When some threshhold is reached the warning is displayed.
Clay
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тАО08-31-2001 08:49 AM
тАО08-31-2001 08:49 AM
Re: what turns on the clean light on tape drive
Hi John
The "Clean me" light is governed by read / write failures and when a certain number of failures occur then the drives embedded software stops trying to read / write to the media and activated the "clean me" light.
See man mt for magnetic tape interface - from here you can do things like checking that a tape is in the drive before doing a backup.
HTH
Paula
The "Clean me" light is governed by read / write failures and when a certain number of failures occur then the drives embedded software stops trying to read / write to the media and activated the "clean me" light.
See man mt for magnetic tape interface - from here you can do things like checking that a tape is in the drive before doing a backup.
HTH
Paula
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