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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie with Adaptec 1542C and Archive Python 4330 Problem Date: 5 Oct 1996 20:29:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <536gg1$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <533j2q$1e8@nadine.teleport.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E julie@foss.com (Julie Schneider) wrote: > I'm getting error messages such as the following when I use tar or > dump: > > st0(aha0:1:0): Hardware failure asc 44,0 internal failure That's a pretty explicit message. Your tape drive is dead. At least, it claims to be dead. (Btw., i think the correct message is ``Internal target failure''.) > Any help appreciated. Also, would the 2940/U/UW be a more stable > choice? It will most likely not repair your dead tape drive. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)