From: "bob chronister" 

you are writing batch files for the drive and evoking rsm?

"Randy H"  wrote in message
news:3e000784{at}w3.nls.net...
> Tandberg VS40 DLT1 hanging off a Symbios (now LSI Logic)
> U2W LVD controller.
>
> The RSM is definitely the source of the problem; Retrospect bypasses
> RSM and talks to the drive with no problems, and it plays nice with
> NT Backup-that is, until something changes somewhere that gets
> RSM all bent out of shape and NTBackup just up and stops working, and
> you can't do anything with the media stored in RSM.
>
> Had another nice little suprise happen. Doing an ASR restore appears to
> sufficenely confuse up XP to the point that Windows Activation gets
> triggered  (you get the dreaded "becuase your hardware configuration
> has changed significantly since the first time the system was activated"
> or some such dialog box pop up.)
>
> I'll now be doing Ghost copies every weekend, and let Retrospect do my
> incrementals in between Ghosting images.
>
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> "bob chronister"  wrote in message
> news:3dff1fe2$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > i have seen instances when a tape drive was not recognized simply due to
> bad
> > hard drive blocks. should not happen but did. BIOS would recognize the
> drive
> > but 98se would not. drove me nuts until the drive failed completely.
what
> > type of tape drive is giving you the lost problem?
> >
> > "Randy H"  wrote in message
> > news:3dfe7f21{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > I finally bit the bullet and re-Ghosted back to an October image.
> > >
> > > And I'll be taking nightly ASR backups in the meantime as I re-install
> > some
> > > apps. Maybe I'll get lucky and trip over the offending app. Then
again,
> > > maybe not.
> > >
> > > 15 years ago when I was working with IMS and DBRC we had a saying:
> > > "trust no one but the computer." Now, it's
"trust nothing but a disk
> image
> > > backup made outside of the host OS".
> > >
> > > "Geo."  wrote in message
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> > > > deactivate the drive in device manager, reboot, see if anything
> > complains.
> > > >
> > > > Geo.
> > > >
> > > > "Randy H" 
wrote in message
> > > > news:3dfcca09{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > > Just uninstalled Retrospect-no joy-Ntbackup
can't/won't see the
> > > > > tape drive, and I can't do anything with the media
in Removeable
> > > > > Media Storage.
> > > > >
> > > > > So now I have a system that, outside of a
third-party package, I
> can't
> > > > > backup to tape using the MSFT delivered products.
> > > > >
> > > > > Now I know why folks use 3rd-party products-they can't trust
> > > > > the Microsoft ones to work.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > "Robert Comer"
 wrote in message
> > > > > news:3dfcb1dc{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > > > Maybe dantz's Retrospect?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > A lot of backup software uses their own tape
drivers and lock
the
> > > device
> > > > > for
> > > > > > their own use...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - Bob Comer
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > "Randy H"
 wrote in message
> > > > > > news:3dfcaa20$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > > > > ...to make my tape drive invisible to
Microsoft's tape backup,
> but
> > > the
> > > > > > drive
> > > > > > > shows up in the Device Manager and is
fully usable by Dantz's
> > > > > Retrospect?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Becuase of this I can't take any ASR
snapshot backups to tape.
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