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In article <3pvoqb$2c4@miwok.nbn.com>, Dan Drake <dandrake@nbn.com> wrote:
>In message <3prp5v$6mk_002@wulfman.icsi.net> - wulfman@icsi.net (Wulfman) write
>s:
>>In article <2fc0cb24.4d495354494b@mistik.express.net>,
>>   os2-l@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) wrote:
>>>About a week ago, I mentioned that I was going to give SYTOS premium a
>>>try since Indelible Blue had it on sale.  Well, I did.
>>>
>><stuff deleted>
>>
>>I've been using SP for about 3 mths. and love it.  I've been thru 
>>BackMaster, NovaBack, BackupWiz, and ARC Solo.  SP is the only one that 
>>has given me clean, consistant performance and reliability.
>
>Glad it works for some people.  I tried it recently, with high hopes, and 
>found that it ran nicely for one day.  Then the next Monday it started 
>telling me the tape drive wasn't connected, and doing that consistently.  
>After a while and a couple of reboots, it connected, and I started formatting 

Hmmm, are you running 2.0?  The reboot fix indicates that there is
something wrong in your systems' drivers.  It could be the Sytos tape
driver, however, that one seems to be really simple just for remapping
calls to the OS/2 drivers for handling the SCSI etc.  It took adaptec a
long time to get their 1742 drivers right.  I would check if there is
another version of the VESA drivers around.

>a tape (BTW I can't figure why the Prepare A Tape operation won't offer to 
>format it for you), and the program grabbed its huge piece of screen real 
>estate and wouldn't let go.  Wouldn't minimize, couldn't be killed by 
>non-drastic procedures.  Funny behavior for a multi-tasked program.  As I 

;) I noticed this when it tries to determine the tape contents. (you
found an example of improper PM programming). However, during backup, it
will let you do anything.  I was even doing high speed communications
and it didn't bother neither one.

>recall, I had to make the new tape because the attempts to stack an 
>incremental dump after my successful full dump left the tape in an 
>unrecoverable condition that wouldn't accept more dumps.  Experience with 5 
>or 6 OS/2 backup programs, and many years of other utilities, has taught 
>me not to waste my time trying to make a new program work when it behaves 
>like this at first.

I agree, but please check the adaptec drivers.  Some of the ones I had
would crash the system just trying to use gtak....

There is a nore in the online help about drives that use builtin
compression.  Some HP drives can do this.  According to that note, you
must tell the program whether the compression is on otherwise it won't
be able to detect a hardware compressed tape.  They also suggest not
using hardware compression for drive compatibility purposes.


>
>(Adaptec VESA SCSI board driving HP 35740A and 1 Gb Quantum drive.)
>
>I'm now back on an ancient text-mode version of Novaback.  I can do other 
>things while formatting on Nback; and once it claims to have written a tape 
>without error, it always manages to read the tape when I need it.  More and 
>more, I appreciate these unusual features in a backup program.
>
>Dan Drake                   I'm not the NRA.
>dandrake@nbn.com               --George Bush
>
>

The tape drive I am using (Tandberg 4220) really doesn't require a
format, but an erase is usefull.  I didn't have any problem with
switching from the erase function since the tape does this on its own.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

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