On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 11:25:30PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> So far, if the terms are ok and all that, I'm beginning to think 
> either that tape brand is a bit flaky, or that your drive is 
> thinking seriously of dieing for good, worn head or some such.  If 
> its the tape, I'd think the error would repeat at the same place on 
> another run against the same tape, rather than moving around 
> randomly.  
> 
> I assume that you have a cleaning tape, and that it has been used 
> recently, just to see if it effected the error rate one way or the 
> other.  Running the cleaning tape on a head thats about fini will 
> often make the errors worse, sometimes very quickly.  Any SWAG as 
> to how many actual tape running hours might be on it?

no idea how many hours on the drive. we've had it for about 2 years. and
it runs everyday. but these problems have been around since new. and the
drive was purchased to replace one with the same problems. although the
new one is slightly better.