On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote:
> Hey, after we already blamed Amanda for not doing incrementals on vfat
> partitions and for crashing NT, it broke my tape drive last night!
>
> Yes, really: Yesterday evening I upgraded my Amanda server to
> 2.4.2. The next amdump run, the tape drive (HP C1533A, DDS-2) broke
> when writing the first filemark. The amber LED was on this morning.
> Powercycling and applying the tips on www.hp.com (press the eject
> button for 30s...) didn't help, the drive does even not eject the
> cartridge.
>
> I'm pretty sure Amanda shot the tape drive to death! :-)
>From my experience with HP DDS-2 drives I'd suggest you keep a service
contract in effect. Mine failed regularly about once per year. And
that was without Amanda.
-Mitch
