Hi!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 10:06:39AM +0100, Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
[...]
> I've tried with a brand new tape and with an existing tape, same result.
> Well, I don't clean as often as it suggests (once a month or so instead of
> once a week), does diags I posted suggest this is a cause?
Since you said the failure was sudden I assume you did not
even look at the software involved, and did not change it.
Leaves other new software (but which one? New kernel?) or
hardware failure ... an unclean head is a rather easy, common
and easy to repair thing.
But if your cotton swab (or whatever your manual tells you to
use) does not look dirty at all, then the head was clean enough
... usually.
> As it is, I gave
> the head a good clean and this appears to have made things worse, so I guess
> you are on the right track.
That sounds bad.
> After cleaning the head I can't even get it to
> do a 'ftmt status' without it reporting an error (see attached density 4
> report) so I guess something is going badly wrong with the unit itself (at
> least I know it isn't ftape).
That sounds even worse. Actually, that sounds like a dead drive.
But I can't read enough out of the log ... just that the drive
does not cooperate at all.
Does a retension work? If it does, the head cannot read but the
tape responds to some commands, if not, there are other problems
(as well).
> > Does the tape drive read written tapes OK?
> Given all of the above I'm a little loathe to place a "good" tape into the
> drive as a test. I don't want to be running without a backup and be using my
> last good backup(s) as test tapes. Or am I being a little too paranoid?
No.
Can you return the tape drive (or, failing that, test it under
Windows)?
-Wolfgang
PS: My condolences.
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