[2484] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: DLT drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum)
Thu Sep 26 23:08:49 1996
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>, sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
From: mycroft@MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum)
Date: 26 Sep 1996 23:08:07 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:35:00 EDT
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> He did mention this, actually. He said, "obviously, if there's a
> power failure..." and then trailed off, indicating that there isn't a
> whole lot we can do about that case.
Someone mentioned to me a few days ago that he'd seen a drive fail for
the same reason. And it certainly appeared that the drive thought
there was a tape present.
Can we find out how to fix it? It's stupid to have to send the drive
back just to get it unjammed.
