General SCSI+ DLT speed questions

[Jim Attfield]

> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 13:07:03 -0500
> From: Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org>
> Subject: Re: General SCSI+DLT speed questions
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> On the system I had it hooked up to (a 933MHz Linux box with hardware
> RAID) keeping the drives fed was no problem.
>
> Anyway, I'm happy to see that, although seeming to need a cleaning tape
> every 4 loads or so, they function as expected :-)
> --
> Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org)            http://www.oldskool.org/

The cleaning light can also indicate media problems, not just head cleaning
time. I have a few tapes which frequently trigger the head-cleaning light
even though recently cleaned.

Jim