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  1. Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:4876 mail.sun-managers:15
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  3. From: billq@fnal.gov (William R. Quayle)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,mail.sun-managers
  5. Subject: Re: ATTENTION: A problem with dump under 4.1.1
  6. Keywords: tape, cleaning
  7. Message-ID: <HFL-H1A7T@linac.fnal.gov>
  8. Date: 22 Jul 92 19:31:29 GMT
  9. References: <1992Jul20.073110.20195@aristo.tau.ac.il> <1992Jul21.195006.112389@zeus.calpoly.edu>
  10. Sender: daemon@linac.fnal.gov (The Background Man)
  11. Reply-To: billq@pogo.fnal.gov
  12. Organization: Independant Consultant
  13. Lines: 20
  14. Nntp-Posting-Host: boise.fnal.gov
  15.  
  16. In article <1992Jul21.195006.112389@zeus.calpoly.edu>, etsiao@joule (Eddie Tsiao) writes:
  17. |> In article <1992Jul20.073110.20195@aristo.tau.ac.il> shani@GENIUS.TAU.AC.IL (Oren Shani) writes:
  18. |> We have had (are having?) similar problems.  We occationally get an error:
  19. |> 
  20. |>   DUMP: Tape write error 753 feet into tape 1
  21. |>   DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails
  22. |>   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
  23. |> 
  24. Sorry if I've missed this in an earlier followup, but has the drive been
  25. cleaned?  I realize that 8mm cleaning is a sensitive issue (you don't want
  26. to overdo it or *ever* use video cleaners!), but I encountered these same
  27. errors on our servers.  After a cleaning with an Excabyte 8mm cleaning
  28. cartridge, the problems subsided.
  29.  
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  31. William R. Quayle                     |          UNIX Systems Administration
  32. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |     Distributed Computing Department
  33. P.O. Box 500, MS-368                  |        Internet: billq@fnal.fnal.gov 
  34. Batavia, IL 60510                     |                       (708) 840-8254
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