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Title: Tape problem after power cut during backup
Post by: vincent on July 05, 2002, 08:08:09 PM

After a long power cut (so long that the power protection battery was empty, and the e-smith server 4.1.2 switched brutally off) during night tape backup (flexbackup), the tape of this day now doesn't work anymore... Is there a solution to "reformat" this tape ?

I tried :
mt -f /dev/st0 erase
but it is not enough...

My tape drive is an IDE seagate STT220000A 20Go.

Title: Re: Tape problem after power cut during backup
Post by: Tom Keiser on July 05, 2002, 08:32:05 PM

I have had clients with the scsi vers of this drive turn off the power or push the tape eject button during a backup. The tape will need to be replaced. If it is from a reputable manufacturer, they will understand how this happened and send you a new one at no charge. Seagate, Sony and 3M all do this; others also, I'm sure.

vincent wrote:
>
> After a long power cut (so long that the power protection
> battery was empty, and the e-smith server 4.1.2 switched
> brutally off) during night tape backup (flexbackup), the tape
> of this day now doesn't work anymore... Is there a solution
> to "reformat" this tape ?
>
> I tried :
> mt -f /dev/st0 erase
> but it is not enough...
>
> My tape drive is an IDE seagate STT220000A 20Go.