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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie with Adaptec 1542C and Archive Python 4330 Problem
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 02:06:25 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk

Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> In article <536gg1$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
>         j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
> > julie@foss.com (Julie Schneider) wrote:
> >
> >> I'm getting error messages such as the following when I use tar or
> >> dump:
> >>
> >> st0(aha0:1:0): Hardware failure asc 44,0 internal failure
> >
> > That's a pretty explicit message.  Your tape drive is dead.  At least,
> > it claims to be dead.  (Btw., i think the correct message is
> > ``Internal target failure''.)
> 
> If it's of any interest, I got a similar message from a drive that had
> run out of usable re-location blocks.  I low-level-formatted the drive,
> and it's now fine.

How does one reformat a tape drive? ;-)

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project