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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.

Regards

In article <4em2qn$fqa@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, jwrights@aol.com (JWrights) says:
>
>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.
>
>Regards

Not sure what the orgional question was, but...

I am using the Conner tape drive with an Adaptec PCI SCSI and NTBackup;
if I turn on hardware compression in the software, the tape drive hangs.
If I turn off hardware compression in the software, but leave the 
hardware compression jumpered to on on the tape drive, no problems.

Hope that helps.

In article <4emmqr$82r@atlas.uniserve.com>, lkujala@uniserve.comt says...
>
>In article <4em2qn$fqa@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, jwrights@aol.com (JWrights) 
says:
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Regards
>
>Not sure what the orgional question was, but...
>
>I am using the Conner tape drive with an Adaptec PCI SCSI and NTBackup;
>if I turn on hardware compression in the software, the tape drive hangs.
>If I turn off hardware compression in the software, but leave the 
>hardware compression jumpered to on on the tape drive, no problems.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>I've got the same Tdrive & Arc backup exec V6 it Works find
> but I was not Aware that you can get Hardware Compression,
>I always thought that you can get Compression through SOFTware 
>Only; but then Again that's my opinion.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>juliust@jaxnet.com<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

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

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?

Sophie Tang (computea@ix.netcom.com) wrote:

: 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?

I had a lot of "bad tape errors" on my HP DAT (Win 3.1, NCR810 contr.) 
and finally I found out how important it is to clean a DAT drive
regulary.. er... after using a cleaning tape it worked fine again.

But sorry, don't know how to solve a problem with a tape drive,
that works not with one system and works well under another... :-(

greets,
Vera

Sophie Tang (computea@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: 
: 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?

We've run into a lot of those type errors, as well as messages that the 
tape isn't properly inserted, etc.

The solution is a wierd one, although it works. What we've done is put 
the tape drive on  it's own scsi host adapter. The problems have 
disappeared completely. We've done this to 5 machines, uning eithe 
NTBackup or Arcada Backup Exec.


Doug
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  Doug Zimmer  dzimmer@access.digex.net
    Systems Administrator - Jenark Business Systems, Inc.  
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DITTO !

I came upon the same solution to this problem whe using 4 hp 
jetstore 8 Gb DAT drives on HP net servers. Lots of bad blocks 
and controller errors. SO... I tried running the tape drives on 
their own HBA's. Voila! I've talked w/ MS tech supp about this. 
They claim befuddlement. Hmmm... maybe they should pay us 
$195.00 per incident....

Bill Schmausser 
Sys Admin SuperFlow Corp
Colorado Springs CO