9track drive woes

From: Pat Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Sun Feb 17 10:55:51 2002

After cleaning, same problem. Now, when I try to copy data off the tape
using "COPY MUA0 NEWS.TAR", VMS gives me these errors:

%COPY-E-READERR, error reading _MUA0:[].;
-RMS-F-RER, file read error
-SYSTEM-W-DATAOVER, data overrun
%COPY-W-NOTCMPLT, _MUA0:[].; not completely copied

when I use dump, like "DUMP MUA0 /OUT=NEWS.DMP", it works just perfectly
fine, which leads me to believe it might be a VMS problem. Prior to now,
I was able to copy straight from the foreign mounted volume OK, but now
it's not working at all, even after I power-cycled the drive and the vax.

Help?

-- Pat

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Gunther Schadow wrote:

> Pat Finnegan wrote:
>
> > I've finally got my StorageTek 2920 9-track drive talking to my Emulex
> > QT13 QBUS->PERTEC adaptor under VMS... It *appears* to read the tapes OK
> > (I have no VMS formatted tapes, so I'm just guessing here), but when I try
> > and INITIALIZE MUA0:, the drive spins the tape for a second and then gives
> > me a "CC7" on its display and "Mach Chk" flashes. VMS calls it a 'parity
> > error'. Anyone know what is going on with this thing?
>
>
> How about cleaning? Does this have a full self test program?
> When I first took my TU81PLUS in operation I had to make 3
> runs of good scrubbing with alcohol before it would want to
> write a tape successfully. Also, it didn't work with every
> tape.
>
> regards
> -Gunther
>
>
>
>
> --
> Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow_at_regenstrief.org
> Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
> Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
> tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org
>
>
Received on Sun Feb 17 2002 - 10:55:51 GMT

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