bkliewer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Bradley Dyck Kliewer) (08/04/88)
We've been having problems with a Tecmar QIC-120 drive. Sometimes, it
will give the error: data found where not expected. This seems to happen
on particular tapes, but not always. We've sent the drive back three times
for repairs (under warranty), but the problem keeps coming back. Tecmar
says other people have had the same problem, but they don't ever seem to
know what's wrong (they keep giving explanations -- first a bad motor, then
improperly aligned heads, and finally some coating that had to be cleaned
off -- but the problem remains). I'm beginning to suspect that each time
certain tapes are erased, the alignment gets changed a bit so that some old
data remains. I'll probably try a bulk tape eraser and see what happens.
Has anybody else had similar problems? If so, have you solved the problem?
The problem is more annoying than it is serious (the tape cannot be used
past the point where the error occurs, but everything before the error is
okay).
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