I've been battling an Mammoth2  drive for a couple of months.

The M2 has been kicking my butt.

Exabyte has a theory. Let's say the maximum |drive-scsi-server| speed is 
750MB/minute. Lets say your doing 30GB at that speed. Then you do another 
30GB at 650MB/minute via|server-network-server-scsi-tape|. Then you do 
another 12GB at 160MB/minute using |server-network-server-scsi-tape|.

Exabyte is surmising that the drive is starting to freak out at 
160MB/minute, figures the drive is dirty and then tries to autoclean the 
drive(a feature of M2 tapes is that the cleaning tape is built in).

Can i slow network connection kill the heads on a drive? What have your 
experiences been?

Thanks

Karl