From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 19:24:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191125032404.GM18200@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKr6gn23iVJ-UtkByz3xjfzzH8JEjr8v7BFc=MwnZ4=1=MVLxQ@mail.gmail.com>
So that sounds like a different problem. People correct me if I'm
wrong but the exabyte drives seemed to have a head alignment problem.
If you bumped the drive, the head moved and it stayed moved. So now
it can't read the tape because the head is offset. I have no data to
support this but I suspect someone that really understood these drives
might be able to move the head back in alignment.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 11:42:36AM +1000, George Michaelson wrote:
> I just failed with a Sun DAT drive. Cable and card bought online,
> recognized by the mt command, but all it does is eject tapes.
>
> I am going to get a friend to come play with rubber bands and WD40 but
> I'm not hopeful.
>
> Bunch of data going to be rotting on tape.
>
> -G
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 11:41 AM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 24 Nov 2019, Larry McVoy wrote:
> >
> > > Good luck with that. I had a 4/470 that had an exabyte, wheeled it out
> > > of building 5 at Sun and into building 9 at SGI and the tapes wouldn't
> > > read back.
> >
> > I've had all sorts of problems with those drives. Fortunately there was
> > an Exabyte agent not far from us, so they got a lot of our business.
> >
> > -- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-25 3:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-24 22:39 Richard Salz
2019-11-24 22:50 ` Jim Capp
2019-11-24 22:52 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-24 22:58 ` Rico Pajarola
2019-11-24 23:45 ` Clem Cole
2019-11-25 1:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25 1:42 ` George Michaelson
2019-11-25 3:24 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2019-11-25 17:07 ` Al Kossow
2019-11-25 17:40 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-25 17:45 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-25 17:49 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-11-25 18:34 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-25 21:08 ` John P. Linderman
2019-11-25 21:11 ` ron
2019-11-25 21:30 ` John P. Linderman
2019-11-25 21:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25 18:29 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-25 3:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25 3:34 ` [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte [ really bulk erasing ] Jon Steinhart
2019-11-25 3:59 ` William Pechter
2019-11-25 15:25 ` Clem Cole
2019-11-25 17:13 ` Al Kossow
2019-11-25 4:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25 3:36 ` [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte Larry McVoy
2019-11-25 22:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-26 1:38 ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-11-25 22:46 ` Dennis Boone
2019-11-25 22:57 ` Henry Bent
2019-11-27 19:31 ` John Foust
2019-11-27 20:56 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-27 21:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25 18:12 Norman Wilson
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