Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!graham.elliott From: graham.elliott@canremote.uucp (GRAHAM ELLIOTT) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Exabyte media Message-ID: Date: 4 Nov 90 20:51:00 GMT Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada Lines: 21 mu>We have a EXA-Byte 8200 and want to use it with a SGI 4D/20. mu>But when we try to tar some bytes we get messages like the following: mu>Oct 22 18:05:04 mira unix: NOTICE: SCSI tape #5 Uncorrectable media mu>error Oct 22 18:05:04 mira unix: NOTICE: SCSI tape #5 Unrecoverable mu>error Oct 22 18:05:04 mira unix: NOTICE: SCSI tape #5 had 2215 mu>recoverable Errors There was some traffic on a local newsgroup recently about media errors with Exabyte drives. In summary, the concensus was to avoid Sony tapes. We use BASF almost exclusively, without any problems. Graham. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Graham Elliott aerostr@ecf.toronto.edu Institute for Aerospace Studies graham.elliott@canremote.UUCP University of Toronto, Canada --- %a #563