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On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 14:57, Bob Gorman wrote:

> With large capacity tapes an erase can take a long time. Listen to 
> the drive or look at the activity lights to tell that it is working.
> If so try letting it run for a few of hours and it should finish.

I mentioned this in a post I just sent out, so I'll just recap real
quick here: Erase (when working) takes about 2 hours.  This erase had
been going for over 7.

I should probably also have mentioned that the problem is intermittent. 
Sometimes the erase performs just fine.

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Cole Tuininga
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Code Energy, Inc
colet at code-energy.com
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