Re: Tape drive sense errors

1998-06-15 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
How do you clean the heads? I have got an Iomega Ditto internal 2Gb drive. Are there head cleaning tapes available? Johann, I have an internal SCSI tape drive (1/4). All I do is open the system up to expose the tape heads and use stereo casette tape cleaning fluid on Qtips on the

Re: Tape drive sense errors

1998-06-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Bernt T. Hansen wrote: I get similar errors on my system when the tape heads are dirty. I do nightly backups and about every two months I need to clean the tape heads to get rid of errors like these. How do you clean the heads? I have got an Iomega Ditto internal

Tape drive sense errors

1998-06-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Does anyone know what the following means: Jun 12 05:47:54 squall kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Current error st09:00: sns = f0 4 Jun 12 05:47:54 squall kernel: ASC=44 ASCQ=ad Jun 12 05:47:54 squall kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x04 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3c 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00

Re: Tape drive sense errors

1998-06-12 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
Ossama, I get similar errors on my system when the tape heads are dirty. I do nightly backups and about every two months I need to clean the tape heads to get rid of errors like these. Hope this helps, Bernt. -- Bernt T. Hansen- Norang Consulting Incorporated --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tape drive sense errors

1998-06-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Great! Thanks! I was afraid something might be wrong. Although I can't get information from mt any more. I'll probably have to reboot. Thanks again. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: