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- From: jd@mars.nwc.navy.mil (John de la Garrigue)
- Subject: Re: SCSI tape error
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- Organization: Science Applications International Corporation
- References: <1992Dec30.081612.19960@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:58:56 GMT
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- In article 19960@athena.mit.edu, zhu@athena.mit.edu (Erin Zhu) writes:
- >In an attempt to read some tar files from the SCSI tape drive (of a
- >Sparcstation 1), I keep getting the message "Media error: I/O error".
- >A similar message showed up when I tried to use "dd". Is there
- >something wrong with the tape drive? The tape reads and writes fine
- >on another machine, so it shouldn't be the problem.
- >
- > Thanks for any help.
- >
- > --Erin
-
- Can't give you any help, but I can commiserate. I have this problem quite
- often, particularly with QIC-24 tapes that read on some, but not all, QIC-150
- drives. I also have problems with writing a tape on one drive, reading it
- OK on a second drive, and getting the I/O error message on a third drive. It's
- all very irritating, and common, from what I've heard. Anyone with a solution?
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