On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Eric Wilson wrote:
> If the drive is good, I believe the sense code is telling us the drive
> believes the tape media is blank:
>
> From Sun Microsystems:
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/Sun4/TrDISK_SCSI_Sense_Keys.html
> 8 BLANK CHECK
> A write-once device or a sequential-access device encountered blank
> medium or format-defined end-of-data indication while reading or a
> write-once device encountered.
>
Darn, makes sense to me! It would be great if somebody could confirm,
however.
> Can anyone else confirm the SCSI Sense code? Is this the correct
> interpretation?
>
> You didn't lay the tape on a magnet, now did you? ;)
>
Not me - the tapes are what the client has bene using for some time. I
have not had the opportunity to verify them, however, ... the next step is
to look at the old machine tomorrow.
Thanks!!
Lee
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