Re: fixing EOD on DAT

2001-02-13 Thread David Ross
You may have already done this but have you powered everything off and back on? These small tape drives are really computers with a very limited user interface and to be honest things like this have a tendency to have bugs in the error recovery process. Turning everything off and back on my reset

HP surestore t4i

2001-02-13 Thread Stuart Steele
I have the above device and when I put in a tape I get a little shudder from the drive and no response ( wind on etc, etc) The fundamental problem is that if load Arcserve it tries to update the state of the tape it does this for about o an hour then hangs the server saying aspi board

Erasing pains

2001-02-13 Thread Welch, John C.
How...do I get retrospect to let me erase tapes from a multi - tape set that are being recycled and the index has long been tossed? john -- No matter how long the river, the river will reach the sea. -Eugene Fitch Ware -- -- To

RE: 0.8 MB/min?

2001-02-13 Thread Grein, Randy
Steve, There's a strong possibility that you're suffering from one or more of the dreaded 'stupid switch, stupid plugplay' syndrome. If you can, put it on a fast ethernet hub (NOT a 10/100 hub!) and test. If that works, fix the switch port to 100 half duplex. -Original Message-

How'd this happen?

2001-02-13 Thread Pam Lefkowitz
G'morning all, I have an odd bird here and, though it probably doesn't make a whole lot of difference in my backup integrity, it is frustrating and annoying nonetheless. I have 7 drives in my local container. When I rewrote my scripts about 6 weeks ago the drives/partitions were in this order:

Re: Erasing pains

2001-02-13 Thread Michael Kennard
The way I did it was to recreate a catalog and cancel it once it started reading the tape. Then you have a bit of a catalog which is enough and you can then erase it as normal. michael How...do I get retrospect to let me erase tapes from a multi - tape set that are being recycled and the