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Conference stkhlm::magtape

Title:MAGNETIC TAPEDRIVES
Moderator:STKHLM::GJOHNSSON
Created:Mon Sep 21 1987
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3775
Total number of notes:13147

3654.0. "Intermittent problem with TZ86 on NT 3.51" by ALFSS2::WHITTINGTON (Plug & Plague) Wed Feb 12 1997 22:23

    Customer has an Alpha 2100 with a TZ86 tape drive running Windows NT
    3.51 Service Pack 4. Windows-NT will intermittently report that the tape
    drive is not accessible. The date of the dlttape.sys is 5-26-95 and it looks
    like the rev is 4318(at least this is what is shown from the registry file
    on the tz86).
    
    Has anyone heard of such a problem? In the meantime I sent the customer
    to our web page to pull the old DECTAPE.zip file and install this one. He
    thinks he has loaded this as well, but since the problem is
    intermittent he does'nt remember. He said that it has gone a month without 
    failing before.
    Always rebooting resolves the problem though.
    
    Ed
    NT/Backoffice Team
    
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3654.1TZ86 intermittant drops off NETRIX::"flynnf@mail.dec.com"Frank FlynnWed Apr 02 1997 00:5012
Ed,
   We are currently having the same problem here. NT 3.51 , sp5 , 2100
with kzpaa. We have swapped tape and controller no change. Customer runs
Arcada backup software. We are currently waiting for the customer to 
load firmware from the 3.9 cd that we have just received. He has loaded
new drivers. It got worse when he upgraded his firmware from the 3.7 cd.
If the firmware update does not fix it I will do a CAPE entry (IMPT). 
Customer is VA Medical. If you have a fix please let me know.

                    Dayton,Oh.       Frank Flynn @mail.dec.com (exchange)

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