MANAGER@SMITH.BITNET.UUCP (06/12/87)
Does anyone know anything about bugs in the VMS driver for TU81+?
The symptom that I got was not being able to perform a backup from tape to
disk. The error message was an "end of tape detected" message. I assumed
the tape was defective and got a replacement, which did the same thing. At
that point someone told me that the driver had a bug and that things would
work all right if I copied the savesets onto disk and backed up from there.
I was able to copy the save sets successfully and complete the installation.
Whatever the bug is, it does not prevent me from doing *any* restores
from tape; I've only had it fail on one (maybe two) occasions. The problem
is that I still don't know what the scope of the bug is (i.e. when I can
expect to see it again). Anyone?
Mary Malmros
Smith College
MANAGER@SMITH.BITNEThelen@uhccux.UUCP (06/14/87)
We had something like that happen to us a few months ago. When we tried to backup onto tape with our operator accounts it would say that we had a problem of writing to tape, so what we did instead was to use the SYSTEM account to do backups (or submit batch procedures that would run under the SYSTEM account).