[Nottingham] Console errors

James Gibbon nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sat Sep 6 22:11:01 2003


David Bean wrote:

> 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. 
> 

Sorry to hear you had a problem - DAT isn't inherently finickety 
in my experience - been using it for backup for three years 
under various distros, never had a problem yet.  Not sure if 
I've ever cleaned the heads in that time to be quite honest.