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- From: bacat@gtephx.UUCP (Tony Baca)
- Subject: Re: Tape SCSI medium error (HardFrame/Viper)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.230804.2738@gtephx.UUCP>
- Summary: Try a different tape
- Organization: AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona
- References: <1992Jul22.082818.9753@rdg.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:08:04 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1992Jul22.082818.9753@rdg.dec.com>, bussink@trucks.enet.dec.com (Erik Bussink) writes:
- >
- > When I want to backup to the Viper, it starts to read the directory of
- > the harddisk and start to write the information to the tape (tape
- > movement)(I guess it just wrote the index to the tape), then it rewinds
- > the tape (rewind message) and then stops with this message :
- > "Error writing to backup tape. SCSI: Medium Error".
- > If I test it with another program it says "Tape Error #3 (Medium Error)"
-
- I had this same problem at first. My problem was that I was using the
- wrong tape. You must use a DC600 or longer tape to work. I was using
- a DC300. The DC600 tape has several holes in the leader by which the
- drive senses the tape type.
-
- Maybe you should try a different tape? Hope that helps.
-
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