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In <4sc4e6$27ra@mule2.mindspring.com>, dsmith@mindspring.com (Don Smith) writes:
>Ok, here's what happens. I have a 4.1 server running on a pentium 133,
>with 32 megs of ram, Adaptec 2940 controller, Quantum 1 meg drive,
>conner tape unit, plextor 4.5 cdrom. I am using BackupExec 7.01a (I
>know 7.01b is out, but don't want to confuse things). 
>
>If I ask for a tape backup in the night, then the next morning the
>server will lock up sometime in the early morning, around 9 am or so.
>If I power it down (which is the only way to talk to it), and leave it
>off for 10 to 15 minutes, it will come back up and stay up for days,
>until I run another tape backup. If I don't leave it off for more than
>a minute, it will go down again. Has been known to go down as many as
>8 times, or as few as one.
>
>I have added ram, changed the hard drive, the cdrom, the tape unit.
>All to no avail. What is happening? As far as I can tell, there are no
>warning messages, just a locked unit.
>
>Help??
>
>
>


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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?

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.

I found reference to this in the CNE Study Guide for Netware 4.1 (Chapter 6,
I believe).
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George Fliger
PC Repair of Florida
gfliger@acun.com
http://www.acun.com/~gfliger