Hello James,
>
> Please excuse the following essay, but I'm feeling
> a bit frustrated!
>
> I left a linux box in my previous job, along with
> a sensible backup strategy ("All you have to do is
> put a tape in the drive on Friday, and take it out
> on Monday morning, and rotate the tapes from week
> to week"). (The tape drive is an Iomega Ditto Easy
> 3200, attatched to a Ditto Dash controller.)
With my ditto 2GB, which is connected to a ditto dash too, I made
the experience that the tape does not like to take the tape out
before the drive is really ready. Then the only possibility to
get the drive in a clean state is to make a hard reset of the
drive itself. To achieve this it needs a power down on the drive,
a reset to the PC is not enough. Maybe you have the possibility
to reset the drive alone, maybe you need to shut Linux down,
power the machine off and switch it on again.
Hope this helps
> ...
>
> All advice gratefully received, James
>
> ...
Regards
Martin
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