[2480] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: DLT drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Sep 26 12:31:02 1996
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU, mycroft@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:05:51 EDT."
<9609261605.AA01922@small-gods.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:29:28 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Greg,
> Regarding the initial failure: they said there should not be a tape in
> the drive when it is turned off or turned on or when the machine is
> rebooted. They said that was probably caused it to fail in the first
> place. (I don't know if that actually happened or not.)
And what happens if there is a power failure when there is a tape in
the drive? This sounds like a pretty bad failure mode to me.
-derek
