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Exabyte 8505 XLS can't read old tapes
2003-08-06 01:16:56
After years of service, my tape drive died. I got a replacement one out
of an IBM box, and I can't get it to read old tapes. I can write new
ones just fine. If I try amrestore, it an error:
amrestore: error reading file header: Invalid argument
mt -f /dev/rmt/0 status gives:
Vendor 'EXABYTE ' Product ' IBM-8505 ' tape drive:
sense key(0x0)= No Additional Sense residula= 0 retries= 0
file no= 0 block no= 0
Any ideas what might be wrong? I'm getting rather nervious, as I have
not be able to do backups for a couple weeks.
The old drive suddenly started ejecting tapes as soon as they were put
in. I tried cleaning it, but no luck.
Thanks,
Andy
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