Martin,
Thanks, I told them to leave the computer
unplugged overnight, it recognized one of the
recent backup tapes, and I've done a restore from
it. There's definitely something wrong with the
drive, however, because it will only recognize the
first tape you put in after a power on.
I think I'll recommend that they buy an SCSI DAT
drive, now that they don't have to get a backwards
compatible drive.
Cheers, James
> > Please excuse the following essay, but I'm feeling
> > a bit frustrated!
> >
> > I left a linux box in my previous job, along with
> > a sensible backup strategy ("All you have to do is
> > put a tape in the drive on Friday, and take it out
> > on Monday morning, and rotate the tapes from week
> > to week"). (The tape drive is an Iomega Ditto Easy
> > 3200, attatched to a Ditto Dash controller.)
>
> With my ditto 2GB, which is connected to a ditto dash too, I made
> the experience that the tape does not like to take the tape out
> before the drive is really ready. Then the only possibility to
> get the drive in a clean state is to make a hard reset of the
> drive itself. To achieve this it needs a power down on the drive,
> a reset to the PC is not enough. Maybe you have the possibility
> to reset the drive alone, maybe you need to shut Linux down,
> power the machine off and switch it on again.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> > ...
> >
> > All advice gratefully received, James
> >
> > ...
>
> Regards
>
> Martin
>
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