On Thursday, 16 May 2013 at 20:56:53 -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thursday, 16 May 2013 at 19:56:14 -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >>> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Bob Bishop <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On 16 May 2013, at 21:51, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >> > [about my tape drive not working] > >> The obvious question: can you write tapes and read them back? My >> experience with DDS tapes was of extreme unreliability. The age >> doesn't make things any easier. > > Well... therein lies my other suspicion. I don't have any DDS4 tapes to > try writing, but the DDS3 tapes I have fail to write. > > ... but they don't even try. The tape spools up when inserted and "mt > offl" works (ejects the tape) and the drive doesn't indicate any error at > this point --- but it doesn't even try to start moving for either read or > write.
You'd expect at least a message, wouldn't you? It's difficult to say whether this is bitrot or taperot. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger [email protected] for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua
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