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8mm tape drive still losing; AFS backup partially done

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 8 03:04:27 1994

From: mhpower@MIT.EDU
To: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 94 03:03:50 EST

The AFS backup failed (with a tape I/O error) on the smallest
volumeset, even though it was done onto a new tape, and with a run of
the cleaning tape through the drive before starting. It seems that the
tape drive does automatically rewind the cleaning tape after
finishing, so I manually advanced the tape before starting.

I suppose it's possible that the cleaning tape also rewinds before
starting a cleaning pass (although it really didn't sound like it
did). I'm starting to suspect, though, that the tape-drive hardware is
failing in some other way that'll be more difficult to solve.

Anyway, rosebud b and c were finally backed up successfully, and I'll
look into doing the other partitions later in the week if I can.

Matt

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