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From: grant@saturn.cs.swin.oz.au (Grant Collins)
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Subject: Tape wearing out on Exabyte?
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 14 Aug 90 23:25:27 GMT
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I have a brand new Exabyte with a brand new tape in it and everytime I do
a dump over the network to it it gives a message like:

st1: warning, the tape may be wearing out or the head may need cleaning.
st1: write retries= 13936, file= 0, block= 3448

I have seen this discussed a while ago but I cant recall the
cause/solution to the problem.  Any ideas?   When I restore the contents
to an unused partition all APPEARS OK.  Is there anyway to verify that
nothing has been corrupted or do I just cross my fingers and hope for the
best?  Any help much appreciated..