Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rice!rice!sun-spots-request From: fmrco!sy13220@uunet.uucp (Richard J. Niziak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: cleaning Exabyte drive heads? Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <1990Oct7.214012.20584@rice.edu> Date: 7 Oct 90 21:30:00 GMT Sender: sun-spots-request@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 12 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Originator: spots@walhalla.rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 318, message 6 X-Refs: Original: v9n313 You may have to first spray some cleaning solution into a slot on the tape drive and then try the following command to run the tape: mt -f /dev/rst1 fsf 3 This should get the drive at least running to allow the tapes to run over the heads.. you will get an error message regarding bad tape but thats OK.. Rick uunet!fmrco!rickn 617-570-2614