At 12:44 +1100 on 22-03-2000, Marty James wrote:
> Hi guys (and the girls to if there's any out there on this list!),
>
> I've been experiencing frequent but non-the-less erratic Hardware
> Failures over the last couple of months.
>
> I run about 75 clients (all macs) off a 7300/200, to a Sony
At 12:44 +1100 on 22-03-2000, Marty James wrote:
> Hi guys (and the girls to if there's any out there on this list!),
>
> I've been experiencing frequent but non-the-less erratic Hardware
> Failures over the last couple of months.
>
> I run about 75 clients (all macs) off a 7300/200, to a Sony
>I ordered a new head cleaning tape and 10 new DSS tapes, but does
>anyone recognize this problem and if so, what do you recommend I do?
I had a similar problem with my Exabyte tape drive for awhile. The
two things I did to help cure the problem were 1) I bought a new,
high quality SCSI cable
>I can't seem to correlate my actions with any specific
>results...sometimes one of the options above will seem to help for a
>few days but then BOOM...Hardware Failure? Is this a buffer underrun
>proplem or something or is the media (Tapes) the problem?
If nothing else works maybe restarting
I've learn one main thing about using Retrospect over the last ?12?
years. It will find defective hardware. Start with the SCSI cables. SCSI
termination. Move it to another machine. Or the drive may be going bad.
You didn't mention which exact model of drive you were using.
Marty James wrote:
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