From: "Randy H" 

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.


"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
news:3dfcd5b5$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > 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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