Re: Seagate Travan questions
I've got a few of those 10/20's here.. Unreliable drives.. But nowhere
near as bad as the HP 14gb models. Those will die every year or so, no
matter waht kinda use you put them through.
Replacing slowly with DDS-3/DDS-4 drives.
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Brian wrote:
> I am using a Seagate Travan 10 GB uncompressed tape drive to backup a
> file server, (on the same machine). Does anyone have problems with this
> drive and/or the driver? Sometimes it will return with an I/O error and
> a tape is in the drive. Another time it will work fine. Or it may say
> the resource is busy even though no processes are using it. Also,
> sometimes I try to stop the backup process because it is not doing
> anything and the process won't die. I read that sometimes if a driver
> gets an I/O error then the process can't be killed and only rebooting
> the machine will get rid of the process. Is this untrue about not able
> to kill a process? What about the tape drive though? It does seem to
> respond better after a reboot. Has anyone had trouble with this drive
> or driver?
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> Brian
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