25 Nov
2019
25 Nov
'19
9:24 a.m.
So that sounds like a different problem. People correct me if I'm
wrong but the exabyte drives seemed to have a head alignment problem.
If you bumped the drive, the head moved and it stayed moved. So now
it can't read the tape because the head is offset. I have no data to
support this but I suspect someone that really understood these drives
might be able to move the head back in alignment.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 11:42:36AM +1000, George Michaelson wrote:
I just failed with a Sun DAT drive. Cable and card
bought online,
recognized by the mt command, but all it does is eject tapes.
I am going to get a friend to come play with rubber bands and WD40 but
I'm not hopeful.
Bunch of data going to be rotting on tape.
-G
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 11:41 AM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 24 Nov 2019, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> > Good luck with that. I had a 4/470 that had an exabyte, wheeled it out
> > of building 5 at Sun and into building 9 at SGI and the tapes wouldn't
> > read back.
>
> I've had all sorts of problems with those drives. Fortunately there was
> an Exabyte agent not far from us, so they got a lot of our business.
>
> -- Dave
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