[Nottingham] Console errors
Robert Davies
nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sat Sep 6 19:59:01 2003
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 18:06, David Bean wrote:
> Sep 6 16:55:30 trevor kernel: st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes.
> Sep 6 17:01:50 trevor kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x2800,
> Current st09:00: sense key Medium Error Sep 6 17:01:50 trevor kernel:
> Additional sense indicates Write error
It's saying it doesn't like the tape. Can you try with different media, then
cleaning heads of drive with provided tape. DDS (DAT) is finickety, and the
drive heads do need periodic usage of cleaning tape to avoid problems.
Rob