Re: dirty device

Check your error logs.  It should also be bad tapes...  In the old 1/2
days you could actually listen for bad tapes v.frequently....(by listening
to retry attempts, NOT the audio quality....:)

Don in DC...



On Wed, 9 May 2001, David Gibbs wrote:

> Folks:
> 
> Please respond to this question in MIDRANGE-L, where it is more appropriate.
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> david
> moderator
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> At 09:58 PM 5/8/2001, you wrote:
> >We're having a problem with backup.  It normally takes 3 hours but last 
> >night it ran for 11 hours before it was cancelled.  There are 
> >informational messages on the operator's message queue about the tape 
> >drive needing to be cleaned but these appear every night.
> >
> >The tape drive is cleaned daily but after so many gigabytes of saved data, 
> >the dirty device messages seem to be inevitable.
> >
> >One theory is that the media itself may be dirty which makes the tape 
> >drive dirty.  This could explain the variation in elapsed time.
> >
> >Could the device getting dirty slow down the job that much?
> 
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