Nic,
firstly - I sent you a private email and I do not appreciate your forwarding it
on to a public mailing list.

Secondly - no, I don't know that there is a connection. What I do know is that
at the two sites I have seen error 174 with a similar signature to yours, those
sites were using dlt drives. 

Incidentally, most of the error 174s that I see which do not have the 

write of X bytes indicated only 1 bytes were written

signature come down to faulty media.


James C. McPherson
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