ace@tidbits.UUCP (Adam C. Engst) (06/09/91)
Hi All, I'm having some trouble with Retrospect 1.3 and a Teac 150 MB tape drive on an SE/30 with no internal hard drive. We just got it to replace a SyQuest drive as primary backup media and want to switch over the network backup (four hard drives mounted over TOPS under 6.0.x) to it while retaining the SyQuest drive for other work. Originally we had it set up theoretically incorrectly with the internally terminated Dataframe 1st in the SCSI chain, the internally terminated SyQuest second, and the externally terminated Teac third. It worked, or seemed to work, but gave a communications error after backing up about 11 MB. Switching the SCSI chain to put the now-unterminated Teac in the middle of the chain eliminated that problem, but now Retrospect is failing with strange errors like "No Media Present" while 100 files into the backup. The tape is obviously present and apparently operating fine, but we keep getting these problems after a while into the backup. Needless to say, it's not the same place each time. Agggh! Of course this happening on the weekend, so I'll be calling Dantz Monday, but I thought it was worth asking here first. Any idea what might be wrong? I've had little experience with tape drives before this, which is why I'm unsure what might be happening. PS: Please respond via email, since I'm not able to keep up with these groups. Thanks! Thanks for any input! Adam Engst --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adam C. Engst Editor of TidBITS, the weekly electronic Macintosh journal ace@tidbits.uucp The best way to predict the future pv9y@crnlvax5, pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu is to invent it. -Alan Kay