[Nottingham] Console errors

[David Bean]

On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 19:58, Robert Davies wrote:
> 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.
> 
Thanks for the advice. The bit that confused me was that the error
showed up with known good tapes. The solution was to clean the drive
after a tape which produced the error, and bin the offending tape. 

David Bean