On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Unfortunately, Bacula is sufficiently demanding that it often brings out > driver problems that don't show up using most Unix tape utilities, which > tend to be rather "simple" minded. They either simply write() or read(). > Bacula uses quite a lot more features of the drive.
just in case anyone tracks down my original mail to the list, and wonders how i resolved it, i should point out i've fixed it. it seems that it was hardware. basically, something on my old system was going south. i suspect it was the processor, as it was so hard to track down, but i shotgunned the entire system (except for the HDD, which i had no reason to suspect, the PSU, which had only just been replaced in an earlier attempt to solve the problem, and the SCSI card, which i can't afford to replace and which i have some confidence in) and put in new motherboard, memory, processor, fan, video card and case. the new system came up and immediately started running bacula just fine. enormous thanks to kern for responding quickly, informatively and personally. -- Tom Yates - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.teaparty.net Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users