I have an Eagle TR-3. It was working fine with TR-3 Extra tapes for the two
years I had it. When I upgraded to RedHat 6.0 (from 5.1), the tapes became
unreadable. They are unformattable now, even under Windows. I have since
gotten regular TR-3 tapes and they are working fine.
All I can figure is that using the ftape modules that were compiled under the
2.0.35 kernel mangled the tapes.
>===== Original Message From Chris Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>Thanks for the tips. I think I've narrowed the problem down, and it
>looks like it's hardware. I can't get the drive to work either under
>Linux or Windoze. Either all of my tapes have gone bad (yes, they are
>pre-formatted and the write-protect switch was in the correct position)
>or the drive has gone bad. I pulled the drive to see if it was clogged
>with dust. It had quite a bit, but getting rid of it made no
>difference. Now the question is, does anyone have any experience
>dealing with this sort of thing? Is there anything else worth trying
>before I trash the thing and get a replacement? If I do look for a
>replacement, should I avoid Exabyte like the plague (this drive is less
>than two years old) or is this an anomaly?
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