9track drive woes

From: Gunther Schadow <gunther_at_aurora.regenstrief.org>
Date: Sun Feb 17 12:36:46 2002

Pat Finnegan wrote:

> Well, I figured out that problem (mount mua0: /foreign /blocksize=10240),
> but after cleaning the drive, just about every tape I try give me a parity
> error within 50k or so of the beginning of the tape. Is there a
> recommended way to clean the tape drive? I just stuck some alcohol on a
> cotton swap and brushed that along the drive head a few times...


O.K. you figured the block size out. Are you saying you can
*read* more than 50k from a tape but you cannot write as much?
You could always have a more severe problem with the transport,
I hope you don't, but if cleaning doesn't help, I would be rather
lost at this point.

good luck,
-Gunther



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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
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Received on Sun Feb 17 2002 - 12:36:46 GMT

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