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Re: Errors reading SCSI DAT, AIC-7880 Controller
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Sat May 22 07:23:58 1999
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Date: 21 May 1999 20:33:55 +0200
Chance Reschke <reschke@astro.washington.edu> wrote:
> May 17 16:37:11 ceres kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium
> format corrupted
I didn't read that, oups.
> We've tried several differnt tapes from two different vendors. We have no
> other DAT drives with which to attempt to read the tape.
Well, one danger with DAT drives is that it is possible, if the head
is misaligned, that you cannot read a tape which was made on another
DAT.
The only other thing you could try is maybe set the block size
(mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 0), but I would not expect a
``Medium format corrupted'' error.
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