Beastie Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 Hello everyone- I've been having trouble backing up to a quantum ultrium LTO-3 tape drive. I've been searching like crazy for a solution. Any help would be appreciated or at least pointing me in the right direction. I am doing a backup over a network, huge amounts of data (video files). I'm trying to back up about 700 gigabytes to a tape all in one swift backup. But early into the backup I get an error- "error 102 (trouble communicating)" and sometimes "error 205 (lost access to storage medium)" I believe that all my drivers are up to date (however, I am going to double check after this post) and that my scsi connection is working. I also have a terminator in the back of the other scsi slot in the tape drive. Seems like this only happens with large amounts of data, but it is very consistent when it does happen. I've run out of ideas as to what is causing the errors. I'm running OSX 10.5.1 on a Mac Pro Dual-Core Intel Xeon and retrospect 6.1.138 Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 what type of scsi card is this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beastie Posted March 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 it is ATTO ExpressPCI UL5D Dual-channel, Ultra320 PCIe-SCSI Host adapter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beastie Posted March 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 Hmm...By finding out what it was I just looked at your post ATTO UL5 and 10.4.10 That explains it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beastie Posted March 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 Figured it out. Called ATTO and found out, thanks to the very kind tech guy, that the card was in a slow PCI slot and therefore bottle-knecking. It's all good now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 Thanks for the follow-up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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