🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi,

Well, I finally solved my tape backup prblem.  To give a short description of
the problem:

I have a TEAC N50 (Macproduct 150 meg tape backup unit).  I couldn't get it to
work with Fastback II (Errors 110,120,150).  With retrospect, it eith hung after
60 or so meg or would give random I/O errors (Error -36), sometimes, it would
die with the error (Hardware error=203 tape speed too slow). 

Well, I returned the drive (It was brand new), got a new one back and it still
did it.

It turns out to be SCSI TERMINATION!!

My setup was as follows:

Mac---Internal Disk----External Disk---------Teac
      (Term built in)  (Term built in)       (NOT TERMINATED!)

So I had a device AFTER the last terminated device on the bus...Solution?
Move the Teac before the External HD......Works great now.

Drive is super fast,  Fastback II is 2.4 meg/minute (With compression),
Retrospect is 4-5meg/min (Without compression)...Oddly enough though,
FB II is only marginally faster with compression turned off (either off or
set to save time).

I still find it hard to believe 150+meg fits on a tape that looks exactly like a
phillips cassette!!!!

BTW,  Retrospect actually wrote 166 meg on a 150 meg tape.....
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