On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 06:10:18PM -0500, Eric Youngdale wrote:
> >Can a dirty drive cause the machine to lockup.  Or will it only cause
> >corrupted reads and write to the tape device. we forgot all about the head
> >cleaning tape that came with the drive.
> 
>     More to the point, is the reason for the lockup that the SCSI error
> handling is going wonky and hosing the system or is the problem that the
> device isn't releasing the bus when it should be.

I don't know.  Maybe one of the scsi experts can chime in.

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