A.P. Lawrence

travan tape locks up

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From: "Bob Menschel" <RMensch@bigfoot.com>
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Subject: Re: Tape Drive Error
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:16:14 -0700
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"Tony Lawrence" <tony@aplawrence.com> wrote in message
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> Joe Porter wrote:
> >
> > Getting an error when trying to do anything with my Seagate 8G under
> > OpenServer 3.2:
> > "dd: cannot create /dev/rct0.  Device busy.  Error 16"
> > You can also reply to jporter@pegpacsoft.com if you can help!  Thanks.
>
> If that's an 8 gig Travan drive, I've regularly seen them do this.
>
> A full POWER OFF will usually fix it short term, but the long term answer
is
> that these drives are, while not quite junk, pretty darn close.  Get a
better
> drive or see /Reviews/dvdram.html for an alternative.

Agreed -- I've got 15 of them, and have been plagued with this problem for
two years.

1) full power off is recommended. Also try removing tape and inserting a
DIFFERENT tape -- that will sometimes fix the problem.

2) Sometimes the problem is the tape drive itself. I've had technicians
report that the drive band for the drive has fallen off its track, and they
put the band back on the track and the tape drive works again (usually only
for a short while, but sometimes indefintely).

Bob Menschel