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Arcada95

o  Been using Arcada Backup (W4WG) under Win95 ok.
   NCR815, many SCSI & EIDE h/ds, CD-Rom etc, HP-C1533A DDS-2 DAT.
   (Adaptec 1510, Epson GT9000 scanner).

o  Installed Arcada95.

   - Instals ok. Run it, detects HP drive. Seems ok.
     (BTW, ... someone calls this an interface?)

   - Backup: fails. Tape initialise/erase/anything: fails.

     Error:  The tape drive reported an unexpected error.
             Ref: 05-0E-23-00-0000

     Tried most of my backup tapes. No joy. Jumped into 
     Linux and mt -f /dev/st0 erase them. Still no joy.

o  Try old Arcada. No longer works:
   - It doesn't "pick up the tape" just sits there, the DAT
     tape light doesn't flash. Exiting the program causes
     a freeze. C-A-D & End-Task work but it gets a GPF.

   - Try de-installing (as per instructions) Arcada95. Nope.


o  The DAT drive still backups (1.7GB) under Linux. 
   The DOS GNU tar program controls it fine, verified 2x.


   Now I can no longer do anything under Win95 via the "new"
   Arcada95 or the old ("W4WG") Arcada Backup program ?!
   
I think Arcada can guess my opinion of them quite clearly.

  It looks like a total re-install of Win95.
  Anyone know anything else to try? Sledgehammer? Thermic Lance?

You know the annoying thing. What backup s/w comes with NT-S ?
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