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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!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie with Adaptec 1542C and Archive Python 4330 Problem Date: 8 Oct 1996 23:20:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <53enjp$lrs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <533j2q$1e8@nadine.teleport.com> <536gg1$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> <538jol$8d@anorak.coverform.lan> <3258C811.15FB7483@freebsd.org> <53ccc2$1d0@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) wrote: > As I said in my reply to your mail, the point is that a "hardware error" > isn't necessarily a hardware "error". It may just be the hardware trying > to tell you something. In this sense, the error is with the media rather > than with the hardware that reads it. Perhaps the guys tape is dead, not > the drive ? If the drive's firmware works correctly, it should report this condition as a ``Medium error''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)