#Odd problem
I have a WANGTEK (SCSI) Tape backup unit attached to the exterior
connection of the 4008 GVP control board in my Amiga 4000/040. It
works – in a fashion. Use the GVPScsiCtrl XXX DCOFF command as
recommended.
At the moment this setup seems to come unstuck when trying to backup a
large partition – say 100 Megs or more. Everything is fine for small
– under 50 Meg partitions. I have tried it with both AMIBACK and
QUARTERBACK software, and a similar error occurs.
What happens is that it is merrily backing up, and gets well on into
the backup. Quite suddenly the monitor screen goes black and both
hard disk and backup unit come to an abrupt halt…. and have to
re-boot the Amiga. This can happen at random… thar is after 29
Megs, 40 Megs, 60 Megs… and so on of backup.
I have used the WANGTEK in my old Amiga 2000 – without any problems,
with the same software. This may imply some software/hardware gremlin
in either the Amiga 4000/040 or in your GVP 4008.
Any thoughts, comments or wisdom? Hilary