CompuServe Messages

Werner, Ah, you're using the C= A3070 streamer… Ok, I know the streamer and I even know this behaviour. Though I have no idea where this comes from. It's a unique problem of the Calipper streamer. I assume there is an error in the streamer's SCSI bus adaption, which causes the streamer to skip bytes or insert additional bytes. That you haven't encountered this problem with other software might be caused by the fact that they're using a different mode for writing the tape. You can try to alter the block size or turn the "fixed blocks" option of. The fact, that the restoration works fine when you're interrupting the process is a good proof that the backup itself and the restoration routine both are ok, and the problem is hidden in the SCSI data transfer. I'm very sorry, that you're disappointed with Diavolo. It's really difficult to make the software a) fast b) reliable and c) working with all available equipment. Diavolo has proven to be very accurate with almost all streamers, especially DAT streamer. To make Diavolo working with ALL streamers, I have implemented the SCSI option dialogue, where you can enable and disable Diavolo's features. Sometimes a feature of the streamer is detected by the "check capabilities" routine but does not work reliably, so you have to switch it off manually. This COULD be true for your streamer. Though your streamer may be vanilla-of-the-shelf, I never had one to test it myself, nor has any of my testers. If you're interested (and if you own a modem), I'd like to invite you to our betatesting program. You then could get beta versions in our support mailbox here in munich and the only thing I would like to get from you would be a detailed bug report with some debug-information of Diavolo (like it's SCSI protocoll etc.). Martin Korndoerfer, Bavaria, Germany Also flying on AutoPilot