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From: ngg@bridge2.3Com.Com (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: DiskFit 1.5 Upgrade Blues
Message-ID: <321@bridge2.3Com.Com>
Date: 9 Feb 89 19:45:08 GMT
References: <12080@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger)
Organization: 3Com Corp., Mt. View, CA
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In article <12080@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) writes:
>Why?  Well, I happen to use a DataStream tape drive, and I've
>yet to see a driver from them that actually works.
>My System: Mac Plus, 30 Meg SCSI, System 6.0.2.
>I bought Disk Fit 1.4.  Worked fine, except for a couple major hangups.
>With the old DataStream drivers, when you want to eject a tape, you
>get a dialog box which asks you to eject a tape.  Press the eject
>button, the tape pops out, but the dialog box doesn't go away.  *sigh*
>Another nice bug was that having the DataStream connected after a
>backup and restarting sometimes corrupted the desktop file.  Why?
>You've got me.  Tech support didn't know why either.  (This problem was
>repeated twice.  Final solution: after the system hangs on ejecting the
>tape, turn the mac off, disconnect the DataStrem.)
>Ken Hancock  '90                   | BITNET/UUCP/

I used to own a Datastream for almost a year, and never ever had the problems
you described with the old drivers. You must have something installed, INIT,
or something that is conflicting with the Datastream drivers. Whenever I
ejected the tape, the dialog always disappeared. It never corrupted the
desktop file, after hundreds of backups....there is a possibility perhaps
that the hardware is failing to send some signal back that the software
looks for to determine that you have ejected the tape..or the cable is
bad.. Since I sold it before the new drivers came out, and you say they
crash, this indicates at least to me that you must have something installed
that is conflicting with the Datastream INIT, perhaps renaming it so that
it loads in a different order will solve the problem...as Its getting impossible
for software companies to test compability withh everything we toss in our
system folders....



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