Have you set your TCP/IP control panel to communicate through the card at the new slot? If not, you are probably connecting via Appletalk. > Subject: slot selection and backups > From: "Stefan Jeglinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:19:29 -0500 > > I have a PowerTowerPro with an Apple OEM 10/100 ethernet card being > backed up by a 6500 with a DAT tape running Retrospect. The 6500 has > an identical 10/100 card in it, and the connection is through a 100BT > hub. From long experience with the limitations of the 6500 and the > DAT, I know that a sustained 10MB/min to tape is what to expect and > for my purposes this is just fine (when I started using Retro, > 10MB/min was the best I could do with a plain 10BT card as well, so > yes 100BT is not helpful here). > > Yesterday, in -successfully- troubleshooting a conflict on the > PowerTower involving a TV card, I moved the 10/100 card from its > original slot (4th down from top) to a new slot (2nd down from top). > The backup now proceeds slowly at 2-3MB/min and there are constant > Net Retries. No dreaded 519s yet but I am expecting them. > > I've done a cuda reset and zapped PRAM and tossed Appleshare prefs > (including invisibles) on the PowerTower. I will be moving around the > 10/100 card again to try to reproduce this, and trying some other > stuff like normal network copies too sleuth it. > > Meanwhile, I have read non-authoritative discussions of the > differences in some slots and how they are used, but can anyone at > Dantz comment on this? Performance from less than one day earlier > with all the same hardware suggests that a network issue, outside of > the slot selection, is exceedingly unlikely. > > Stefan Jeglinski > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------R -- ---------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: <http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/> Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
