On Tuesday 08 October 2002 16:53, Jerry wrote: >I noticed my Exabyte EZ17 Autoloader needs an mt -f >/dev/rmt/0 retension every now and then to make it >happy or it gets i/o errors. They are relatively new >tapes and it seems if I haven't picked up one of the >tapes with the robot in a week or so, and nothing has >been done with it.... it fails unless I retension it.
I wonder if this is heat related, as in how hot is the drive and robot area when its just sitting there for a week. Tapes are funny critters and I've seen a 10 degrees F cooloff make a lot of difference. >Any ideas? > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More >http://faith.yahoo.com -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.17% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
