[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.