Tape wearing out on Exabyte?

[Scott Leadley]

In article <1990Aug15.235722.7639 at rice.edu> grant at saturn.cs.swin.oz.au (Grant Collins) writes:

>I have a brand new Exabyte with a brand new tape in it and everytime I do
>a dump over the network to it it gives a message like:
>
>st1: warning, the tape may be wearing out or the head may need cleaning.
>st1: write retries= 13936, file= 0, block= 3448

Cleaning the heads every other day, approximately every 10-15 hours of
use, works for us.  We use Sony 8mm cleaning cartidges 'cause they are a
lot cheaper and easier to get than Exabyte cleaning cartidges.

Scott Leadley - leadley at cc.rochester.edu