The problem that John mentions is very serious indeed! It makes one wonder:
1. Can a DDS be calibrated, and, if so, how often should it be done?
2. How can I tell if my DDS drive has this condition without using another
drive ( i don't have another one)?

Mark Gross
Emerson Motion Control
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> From: John Zoltak <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 11:30 AM
>
> What happens if you store from B and try restoring to A. I had a bad DDS
> drive that created tapes that only that tape drive could read. It
> finally failed and had to be replaced. So now I have a bunch of tapes
> that I cannot read at all.
>
> John Zoltak
> North American Mfg Co
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phil Anthony [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 12:18 PM
> > To:   [log in to unmask]
> > Subject:      [HP3000-L] RoadRunners, DATs, and Errors, Oh My!
> >
> > Does anyone know of a solution to this problem.  I have DDS2 tape
> > drives
> > on all of my systems.  When I perform a RoadRunner backup on System A,
> > I
> > have no problem restoring it to System A.  When I try to restore to
> > System B, however, I get the following errors:
> >
> > /10:07/ RoadRunner ERROR 524: An error occurred while reading the
> > media
> > volume on device 7
> > /10:07/ MPE XL status: Subsystem 113, error -35
> > /10:07/ RoadRunner ERROR 81: Restore of file FILENAME.GROUP.ACCT
> > cancelled due to backup media error
> >
> > It doesn't appear that there are any problems with the drives, and my
> > HP
> > CE suggested that I check hardware compression, which I did, and I
> > made
> > sure they were the same on Systems A and B.  Other than a bad tape
> > drive, does anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > Phil Anthony
> > Director, System Resources
> > United Video Satellite Group
> >
> > 918.488.4059
> > [log in to unmask]