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In January this year I installed an internal 250 tape drive which has
performed successfully until a few weeks ago. Usage is domestic i.e.
once per week.

Using the supplied Arcadia software the backup completes but during
compare I get a message box "Failed to read data from tape for the
file: x.y"

At first this was intermittant, but today after six attempts it is
every time. There is some consistency in that it fails on the same
file each time no matter how many attempts I try. If I try again
latter in the day or another day it does exactly the same thing but a
different file to the first time. In between times none of the data
has changed. This happens regardless of whether I overwrite or append,
use an old, new  or erased tape.

I have followed the instructions in help and the manual, I clean the
heads with pure Isopropyl Alcohol.

Am I missing something obvious or is it just busted?


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Dave Williams                        Home : david@trollard.demon.co.uk
Macclesfield, Cheshire.