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--- sam

In article <837592848snz@longley.demon.co.uk> David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk> writes:

   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