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

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 20:26 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> 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

Sense errors like that mean something is badly broken. If cleaning
hasn't helped, then you've either got dodgy SCSI cabling or bad
termination (in which case you'd normally expect to see bus resets), or
the drive is failing, which is the most likely think, IMHO.

Mike

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