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Title: Re Tape Drives
Post by: Gordon on October 18, 2002, 03:47:02 AM

Hi
Has anyone installed and used VXA-1 tape drive from Exabyte.
TIA
Gordon

Title: Re: Re Tape Drives
Post by: Boris on October 19, 2002, 03:30:46 AM

I have.
Both SCSI and IDE version work great.

Title: Re: Re Tape Drives
Post by: Henry on October 21, 2002, 08:34:20 PM

I've had problems with the flexbackup routine and the vxa.  It doesn't backup when you first put a new tape in.

You have to do another backup before it works...

Title: Re: Re Tape Drives
Post by: geoff on October 24, 2002, 04:04:58 PM

This seems to be a common problem - happens with my seagate travan drive with a new tape. First time you try and do a backup, it tries to write to block 1 and fails. Second time round, mine tries to start at block 192 and everything's fine. I've never tried a restore though, so god only knows whether that'll work...