Subject: Re: Help! tape drive!
To: Bill Bradford <mrbill@ionet.net>
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 02/21/1996 12:23:59
On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Bill Bradford wrote:
> Feb 21 12:17:09 darksun vmunix: st0 error: sense key(0x3): media error, error
> code(0x11): hard data error
>
> I shut the system down, took the hatbox apart, cleaned the heads. Put it back
> together, booted, tried again. No luck, same error.
>
> Is my 60mb tape drive fried? Anybody know where I can get another? I *really*
Probably not. "media error" means the tape. Try another tape.
Tom