Hi Doug and Wilko, Thanks for your reply. I was convinced that it was a hardware problem, too.. ..so I installed another OS on that same machine.. just to make sure it was a hardware problem.. big surprise! it worked without a problem.. ..went back to FreeBSD and the problem is again there.. Do you believe that even after that it could still be a hardware problem? or a mix of hardware bug and software bug? May it be that FreeBSD software uses some buggy hardware features that the other OS just don't use? Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > > >><ARCHIVE Python 06408-XXX 9050> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-3 device > > >>it seams that if I use a new tape, then I can dump on it.. >>but if I try to overwrite the tape, it starts behaving funny. >>also.. anytime I try to write to a non new tape, it will >>make errors and turn on the dirt led. >>The result is that it's not possible to make any reliable >>dump/restore on it. >> >>the tape drive is less than 1 year old and the tapes are >>of good quality. > > > My experience with this on DLT tapes is that this is caused by a damaged > head assembly or something is seriously out of alignment. In other words, > its not something you can fix. If it is less than a year old, then it > should still be under warranty. I suggest you take advantage of that. > -- Roberto Nunnari -software engineer- mailto:roberto.nunnari_at_supsi.ch Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana Dipartimento Tecnologie Innovative http://www.dti.supsi.ch SUPSI-DTI Via Cantonale tel: +41-91-6108561 6928 Manno """ fax: +41-91-6108570 Switzerland (o o) =======================oOO==(_)==OOo========================Received on Sat Jan 24 2004 - 06:10:19 UTC
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