Hi Tom, The story goes as follows:
The tape drive was in a machine, and working fine for about 6 months. Recently (about 3 weeks ago now), backups started failing with an "out of tape" error if they were over about 14.4 GB. A bit of trawling led me to the conclusion that HW compression was still turned on (I though it was off, but that was my mistake). As the machine was a production machine, I scheduled some downtime late one night and removed the tape drive from it. I then built another machine using the same software versions with the tape drive in it, so that i could experiment and try to turn off the hardware compression. So, to answer your questions: * same drive * different SCSI controller * different SCSI cables * I'm pretty sure SCSI termination is fine. I have tried two different SCSI cables (both with terminator on the end, and one of them was out of the box it was working in) * I have run a cleaning tape on it about 5 times in a row. * drive has definitely worked, but once I put it in machine with new cabling/controller started having these problems. * have tried two seperate SCSI controllers (AHA-2940 & AHA-2940UW) At the end of the day (which is now ;) I'm still having a problem labelling tapes, which appeared once I removed the drive from the original machine. I removed the drive to try and sort out the compression issue, but now can't even label tapes :( regards, Tony. --- Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any suggestions on why it is not recognising the label ? > > is your drive new/old/dirty/clean? > > what about SCSI termination? have you tried a different cable? > > has this drive/cable setup ever worked? > > Tom > > ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk
