[Gllug] [somewhat OT] broken (?) tape drive

[Adrian McMenamin]

I have a tape drive (HP DAT DDS2 type thingy) but when I try to write to
it it fails:

Apr 20 20:18:49 noisybox kernel: [ 2925.462051] st0: Block limits 1 -
16777215 bytes.
Apr 20 20:20:18 noisybox kernel: [ 3015.172575] st0: Error with sense
data: <6>st0: Current: sense key: Medium Error
Apr 20 20:20:18 noisybox kernel: [ 3015.172625]     Additional sense:
Write error
Apr 20 20:20:18 noisybox kernel: [ 3015.172674] Info fld=0x15000
Apr 20 20:21:31 noisybox kernel: [ 3088.192873] st0: Error with sense
data: <6>st0: Current: sense key: Medium Error
Apr 20 20:21:31 noisybox kernel: [ 3088.192921]     Additional sense:
Write error
Apr 20 20:21:31 noisybox kernel: [ 3088.192964] Info fld=0x2
Apr 20 20:21:31 noisybox kernel: [ 3088.192988] st0: Error on write
filemark.

Googling suggested this might be a dirty head, so I got a cleaning tape
and inserted it (that's all I have to do, right?) but it still fails
(above is the message *after* cleaning)

Anything I can do, do you think?

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