I have a Seagate DDS4 drive on a FreeBSD 6.2 server:
$ dmesg | grep ^sa
sa0 at sym0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
sa0: SEAGATE DAT9SP40-000 912L Removable Sequential Access SCSI-3 device
sa0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 16, 16bit)
It's been working perfectly for a couple of years when
On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:55, Kirk Strauser wrote:
I have a Seagate DDS4 drive on a FreeBSD 6.2 server:
$ dmesg | grep ^sa
sa0 at sym0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
sa0: SEAGATE DAT9SP40-000 912L Removable Sequential Access SCSI-3
device sa0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 16, 16bit)
On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:28, you wrote:
I had some limited experience with DDS4 drives/tapes about 10 years
back, and one thing I found to be absolutely true: DDS4 tapes
labelled/written-to on one DDS4 drive will NOT work in another DDS4
drive.
I could believe that. Is there any decent
On Sunday 28 January 2007 12:55, you wrote:
If its already had 2 years use, its possible the heads may be worn enough
to fail on the higher density tape, Kirk.
Great. For curiosity's sake, would it likely have worked (and still be
working) if I'd switched to all brand-new DDS4 tapes from the
--On January 28, 2007 2:03:26 PM -0600 Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sunday 28 January 2007 12:55, you wrote:
If its already had 2 years use, its possible the heads may be worn enough
to fail on the higher density tape, Kirk.
Great. For curiosity's sake, would it likely
On Sunday 28 January 2007 15:03, Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Sunday 28 January 2007 12:55, you wrote:
If its already had 2 years use, its possible the heads may be worn
enough to fail on the higher density tape, Kirk.
Great. For curiosity's sake, would it likely have worked (and still be
working)
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 02:00:13PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:28, you wrote:
My suggestion, if you haven't done so already, is to take a fresh DDS4
tape
that has never been in any drive and try that in your new DDS4 drive. If
you've done this, and it
