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From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: My Tower XP tape is bad...help!
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Date: 26 Sep 90 03:56:36 GMT
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With a lot of help from the net, especially Steve Bridges from NCR Wichita,
I now have a shiny new :-) Tower XP which passes all the SUS diagnostics and
will attempt to start the system install. It even - surprise, surprise -
recognizes my Seagate ST4051, and formats it without complaint. (It says the
drive type is SG51, which suggests it really knows what it's dealing with.)

When I start the system installation process, it boots the tape fine, does the
appropriate things to my hard disk, then begins creation of the install file
system. It retensions and then verifies the tape; the verification ends with
the message, "*** Error *** Corrupted or missing data on media. System
installation terminated."

Am I SOL? What do I do now? Hopefully, there's a solution out there that won't
cost me lots of $...I only have $500 invested in the machine. This will become
my personal system at home if I can ever get it running. Please email me at
jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu....thanks in advance!

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu  | adequately be explained by stupidity.
"It's a hardware bug!" "It's a    +---------------------------------------
software bug!" "It's two...two...two bugs in one!" - _Engineer's Rap_