DAT drives and poor tape usage

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From: David Longley
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 00:00

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I have an Archive DDS2 DAT drive (3.5") which is behaving oddly. With some
new tapes it's fine. With others i get a lot of gren light flashings, which
is indicative of correctable wrrors. Sometimes however, there is a lot of
tape movement as if it's going back to trhe beginning of the tape...and the
rate of data being written slows down quite dramatically. 

These are often brand new tapes. With some older tapes, it will get so bad
that after a while it just cancels, and I have a rapidly flashing green light.

I have tried cleaning with a DAT cleaning tape, but that only helps for a
short time if at all. I'm assuming its a head wear or cleaning problem, but
is there someone out there who knows what this is symptomatic of and what
I should do with it.

It's an ARCHIVE 4236? badged as a Compaq Turbo Dat 4/16GB
-- 
David Longley

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From: David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk>
Subject: DAT drives and poor tape usage
Date: 1996/07/17
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