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#Tape Troubles

    26-Aug-92 19:54:45
Sb: #Tape Troubles
Fm: Syndesis 76004,1763
To: All
I've got an Exabyte 8mm tape drive on my system now. I've had trouble warm-booting when the tape drive is on. Cold boots usually work fine, but warm boots don't. I've got a DKB multi-start board installed. When the boot fails, I get the purple animated-disk 2.0 "Insert WB" screen. I've got it connected via the external SCSI from a GVP '030 Combo board. It's not terminated externally – if I add the terminator, it doesn't boot at all. What might I do to get around this? I'm not sure how I can help the GVP along with this… it's not like you can make adjustments in the FastPrep software and save out a new RDB that would help…