[Search for users] [Overall Top Noters] [List of all Conferences] [Download this site]

Conference decwet::windows-nt

Title:Windows NT
Notice:See note 15.0 for HCL location
Moderator:TARKIN::LIN.com::FOLEY
Created:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6086
Total number of notes:31449

5955.0. "NT DLT drivers & reporting of deferred errors?" by DECWET::LENOX (when is recess?) Fri Apr 25 1997 15:53

  Does anyone know whether the DLT drivers for NT report
deferred errors, more specifically the dlttape.sys with
the NT 4.0 SP2?

  We have a tape which didn't report errors but lost 32KB
(out of 900GB), but there were other irregularities as well.

thanks,

Amy Lenox
[email protected]
decwet::lenox
T.RTitleUserPersonal
Name
DateLines
5955.1LEFTY::CWILLIAMSCD or not CD, that's the questionMon May 05 1997 13:1112
    Doubtful. NT is not real good at keeping track of -any- errors.
    
    Was the drive posting hard errors, or soft errors? Regardless of
    deferred status, a hard error should stop it dead in its tracks. Soft
    errors generally get ignored by NT, deferred or not.
    
    Was it a Quantum drive, or a Digital drive? Code rev? Interface?
    
    More info would help...
    
    Chris
    
5955.2montlake.zso.dec.com::lenoxreply to [email protected] or decwet::lenoxMon May 05 1997 14:579
It was a TZ89 drive in a TL894, not sure
on the rev. levels.   Current problems are
taken to T. Tran's group.

No errors reported in event log.

Microsoft needs some work to get themselves
to an enterprise level operating system.