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Article #25Re: Bad tape errors with Conner 4Gbyte SCSI Exabyte, too!
From: Sophie Tang
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 07:18
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 07:18
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In <3PDZVmACRPExEwKK@wookie.demon.co.uk> John Beardmore <wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> writes: > >In article <4em2qn$fqa@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, JWrights ><jwrights@aol.com> writes > >>I have the same drive, but on an Adaptec VL bus SCSI system. I also use >>the NT 3.51 backup software. I've never had any problems. Since the OS >>doesn't use compression I wonder if that might be a problem. I don't know >>Arcadia's rep for reliability. Also, contact Conner and ask them about >>alternate settings for your tape drive in the SCSI BIOS table. > >I did have some problems using NTs backup software, a conner 4 gig drive >and a wangdat tape unit using a VL bus Rocket 2 board with an Adaptec >controler ( VL or ISA ). > >This was cured in the end by going to PCI. I don't recall if I have >hardware compression enabled or not. > > >J/. >-- >John Beardmore I am running into the bad tape errors a lot on NT. The same tape works just fine on HP workstations. So it must be the Exabyte 4200 caused all the data tape error problem. Any suggestions?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: computea@ix.netcom.com(Sophie Tang ) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: Bad tape errors with Conner 4Gbyte SCSI Exabyte, too! Date: 8 Feb 1996 07:18:23 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <4fc83v$khk@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> References: <arnsteinDL6n4u.ALr@netcom.com> <4em2qn$fqa@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <3PDZVmACRPExEwKK@wookie.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: irv-ca9-07.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Feb 07 11:18:23 PM PST 1996