niels.henrik Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 Hi there - can this be my solution too? - now when I have tried everything. Im running almost the same setup: OS 10.5 Server thus on a G5 Tower ATTO UL4S with the latest Flash and driver (march) Retrospect Workgroup 6.1.138 HP ultrium LTO-3 tape drive and I am getting the same error 205 (lost access to storage medium). Ive moved to another machine - and its the same..... Whats is it with a slow PCI board/bay - arent they all the same..?' Niels Henrik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 Niels, yours seems to be a different problem from the original poster, who has an Intel machine. Whats is it with a slow PCI board/bay - arent they all the same..? Not with the Intel, where a riser board, etc., may be used to allow backward compatibility with PCI Express cards (as compared with PCI-e). Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niels.henrik Posted April 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 Okay - but what can I do I have checked everything...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 Okay - but what can I do I have checked everything...? (1) you can start a new thread because your problem is not the same as the original poster. (2) you can more completely define your problem in that new thread. Simply a "me too" post is not helpful. Clearly you have a different problem. Helpful information would be complete Retrospect Driver Update version (you don't even say whether you are running an RDU, or what version), complete MacOS X Server version (not just "10.5"), exactly what hardware you have (not just "G5 tower"), exactly what ATTO firmware and driver you have (not just "latest"), what steps you have done to troubleshoot (not just "checked everything"), what firmware versions you have on your autoloader and tape drive, etc., etc., etc., etc. You can provide the same complete information about the "another machine" you tried it on, exactly what you did when you tried it on "another machine" - same cables? Retrospect version? MacOS version? hardware? etc., etc., etc., etc. (3) have you obtained a SCSI log and consulted with EMC Support? (4) did it ever work, or did it just now stop working? If it just now stopped working, what changed? Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 (1) you can start a new thread because your problem is not the same as the original poster. I have moved this to a new thread for everyone. niels.henrik can now reply to this thread with the description of what is being seen and the configuration details etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 205 error is a hardware error reported by the tape drive. We typically suggest: Try multiple tapes, try a new scsi cable and terminator, try a different scsi card, clean the tape heads, try another Macintosh, update scsi drivers and firmware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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