[ale] Loaner DLT Tape Drive?

[Jim Kinney]

Emacs ruined my backups. :-)

Gave away my last dlt gear a few years back.
On Dec 26, 2012 1:56 PM, "Jeff Hubbs" <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:

> Reprint from a couple weeks ago - next time will put "emacs vs. vi" in
> subject. :)
>
> On 12/16/12 6:51 PM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>
>> I have a Quantum DLT1 tape drive that appears to be broken - I/O errors
>> some times but not others.  Was able to tar to it for a while - but it got
>> an I/O error at finish and same when trying to read back.  I've swapped out
>> cables (w/ termination on the end, BTW) and SCSI controllers and I can't
>> get consistent behavior. Sometimes even "mt -f /dev/st0 status" will I/O
>> error right after boot.
>>
>> Does anyone have a known working similar loose DLT drive that I can
>> borrow for a little while?  Here's a photo of the unit I'm dealing with:
>> http://picpaste.com/tapedrive-**GJOVjvpm.jpg<http://picpaste.com/tapedrive-GJOVjvpm.jpg>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> - Jeff
>>
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