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Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:00:20 PDT
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Possibly ailing DDS-2 drive

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I don't back up often enough. Last night, I tried several times
to do so via my HP DDS-2 drive. There were various failures with
different backup programs, on both the Warp and NT platforms. To
be sure, I opened two fresh DAT cartridges, which both numbered
among the CRC and other failures. The drive was not making the
normal sounds that it makes, and backups would bomb out quite
early in the process. On the previous round of tape backups I
had done, a couple months ago, everything had proceeded normally
without incident. This drive was purchased approx. 3 years ago,
and has seen relatively light use -- far less than it would get
in most office environments.

The nature of the failures, including some where the DAT
cartridge bobbed up and down in the drive, as if mechanically
seeking something and not finding it, led me to think in terms of
a h/w problem of some sort. Several insertions of a cleaning
cartridge had no effect. Today, I blew several shots of
compressed air into the drive. Immediately after that, I
successfully backed up two partitions totalling 800 meg., and
restored a few files from an older tape, which had accidentally
gotten deleted from my hard drive.

Time will tell if this is an intermittent or lasting problem.
But I'm wondering if anyone who has a lot more experience with
DAT drives than I do finds this account to be familiar.

Jordan

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