Re: Bad tape errors with Conner 4Gbyte SCSI d

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From: John Beardmore
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 17:11

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In article <4em2qn$fqa@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, JWrights
<jwrights@aol.com> writes

>I have the same drive, but on an Adaptec VL bus SCSI system.  I also use
>the NT  3.51 backup software.  I've never had any problems. Since the OS
>doesn't use compression I wonder if that might be a problem.  I don't know
>Arcadia's rep for reliability. Also, contact Conner and ask them about
>alternate settings for your tape drive in the SCSI BIOS table.

I did have some problems using NTs backup software, a conner 4 gig drive
and a wangdat tape unit using a VL bus Rocket 2 board with an Adaptec
controler ( VL or ISA ).

This was cured in the end by going to PCI. I don't recall if I have
hardware compression enabled or not.


J/.
-- 
John Beardmore

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