> From: Rick Meyerhoff <rick at eworld3.net> > It's been a while since I've worked with any SCSI devices but you used > to have to have a terminator (BTR) at the end of the chain. Without that > you would get strange behavior. Yeah I've tried several different cables and used both an active terminator at the end of the cable and the onboard jumper terminator on the hp dat drive. All provided the same results. > I'm also wondering if you are putting one big file on the tape or many > small files? Maybe you are hitting one file that is causing problems. The freeze happens within 30 - 50 seconds of start, usually just going through some smaller files. Nothing really big on the system yet. I have tried various directories trying to rule out a particular file bugging it out. It even happens with tar. I was able to tar a small job (like maybe 50-60 files). The bigger tar job frooze just the same as the rest. > > > > I am running SUSE 9.0. I am having some problems with a recently > > installed HP Surestore DAT 40. When I try and run a backup, the > > computer freezes, slowly at first and then progressively gets more > > locked up. Here is what happens. > > > > Start Backup > > BU software starts the jobs and hits a good xfer rate. Usually within > > 30-50 seconds of starting the job the backup throughput falls and > > eventually goes to 0. The tape drive stops receiving data (light > > stops flashing). The backup software interface still functions but > > becomes increasingly unresponsive. > > Backup software tried (both Tapeware and Arkeia). _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list