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From: leadley@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Scott Leadley)
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Subject: Re: Tape wearing out on Exabyte?
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In article <1990Aug15.235722.7639@rice.edu> grant@saturn.cs.swin.oz.au (Grant Collins) writes:

>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

Cleaning the heads every other day, approximately every 10-15 hours of
use, works for us.  We use Sony 8mm cleaning cartidges 'cause they are a
lot cheaper and easier to get than Exabyte cleaning cartidges.

Scott Leadley - leadley@cc.rochester.edu