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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-3.sprintlink.net!news.cirrus.com!usenet From: Clint Wolff <clint_w@colorado.cirrus.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie with Adaptec 1542C and Archive Python 4330 Problem Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 09:18:39 -0600 Organization: Cirrus Logic, Inc. Lines: 44 Message-ID: <32591F4F.41C67EA6@colorado.cirrus.com> References: <533j2q$1e8@nadine.teleport.com> <536gg1$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> <538jol$8d@anorak.coverform.lan> <3258C811.15FB7483@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: longs.colorado.cirrus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: ; ; Brian Somers wrote: ; > ; > In article <536gg1$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 Buy a new tape? I have used and Archive Python/AHA-1542B combination for since 2.0.5 came out, and I have never seen this problem... I don't use the tapes more than about 10 times either. clint -- Underscores added to return address to defeat advertising engines. clintw@colorado.cirrus.com