A cd-burner is hardly a replacement for a 35gb native tape format...
I'd probably run a cleaning tape through the drive a couple times to
start, try a fresh tape in the drive, isolate it on it's own scsi
interface if there are other devices connected on the same bus, and have
the drive evaluated and serviced by hp in roughly that order...
joelja
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Fred wrote:
> I read somewhere - recently - that 60% of ALL tape backups fail. If that's
> so, I'd recommend that you ditch the tape drive. (get a cd burner! or another
> hard drive)
>
> Fred
>
> _________________________________________________
> On Thursday 23 August 2001 10:52 am, Ajit Jena wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I need your expert advice on the following issue:
> >
> > I saw some messages on the Linux kernel mailing list about DLT 4000
> > tape drives.
> >
> > We have a Quantum DLT 4000 1/15 drive connected to an HP9000 system.
> > This is a SCSI device connected on the Wide SCSI port. I have all kinds
> > of driver problems on the HP system. My tar backups abort randomly saying
> > media error.
> >
> > I was wondering if I can connect the same drive to a Linux box having
> > wide SCSI interface. Do u think this is a workable proposition ? What
> > extra hardware/software I need to procure ? Please advise.
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > --ajit
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