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gfliger@acun.com wrote:
>Adaptec 2940 and Quantum HD...  Do you by chance have the command-line
>switch, "tag_disable=ffff" on the load line with your Adaptec .LAN driver?

We are having the same problem here.  We have an Adaptec 2940, Conner & Quantum
HD's, Toshiba CDROM, and Sony SDT-5000 Tape drive.  We need the
tag_disable=ffff switch or we get intermittent "Drive deactivation" errors.

>Also, do you have your tape backup unit on the same Adaptec controller as the
>HD?  Believe it or not, Novell suggests keeping tape backup units and CD-ROMs
>on a separate controller from the HD as intermittant lockup can occur.

We have been unable to perform any type of "regular" tape backup schedule as we
get the tape drive locking up after as little as 3 Meg of data.  I had the
latest patches as of 2 weeks ago and have tried isolating the problem by
removing the Quantum HD and CD-ROM drive.

If Novell cares enough to fix this problem, I can provide them with the details
of a configuration that will repeatably fail (being a software developer
myself, I know the importance of having "repeatable failures").

This problem appears to be related to Netware 4.1 as we had no problems before
upgrading from Netware 4.01.

Terry