I really should put my brain in gear and re-read what I'm about to post
before sending.  Some background info will help, this is a Win2K Server
with an attached Compaq SDLT drive on the external tape port of the built
in Compaq RAID/SCSI controller.

Thanks,
Ron.

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Ron Lyman wrote:

> Good day.  This is turning into a typical Monday, with plenty of problems 
> first thing in the morning.
> 
> I came in to work this morning to find the weekend backup job failed.  the 
> Status window showed error code 84, and between the event, system, and 
> bptm logs, it looks like there was a bad block.  Not really understanding 
> what would cause or fix the problem, I power cycled the tape drive and put 
> in a different tape, labelling it the same as the one used for the failed 
> job.  No media was frozen.  Manually launched the backup, and it failed.  
> However, I'm pretty sure this was due to me starting it too soon after the 
> drive powered on.  I waited five minutes or so and tried again and it went 
> just fine.
> 
> Could any of you folks write a few lines lending your knowledge to me?  
> I'm wondering what when wrong, and more importantly how to avoid it in the
> future.