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Hi Steve,Steve Garry wrote:Hi,
Have an HP SCSI DAt drive on an XP Pro machine,which works fine with XP backup, but I can't see how to tell Starwind about this device, as it's not showing up anywhere else in XP. Can I use this device with starwind, or does it have to be visible as a "my computer" item for starwind to find it? If I can, how do I tell starwind how to find it? I want to be able to access it from another computer for backups
Thanks
Steve
Steve,Steve Garry wrote:Valery,
Thanks for the information, I'm making progress, in that I can now see how I get to the device, but it's refusing to add it, and the error log is telling me that the problem is that my device has a maximum buffer length of 61440, and the software is trying to allocate larger.
I have tried changing the parameter in the conf file, and completely restarted the machine to try and make sure that it's taken the new parameter, but it's still failing, as if it has not seen the parameter correctly
Also, to avoid hassles with Norton Internet Security, am I safe to use the address that the host machine is set to, in order to make sure that the requests get through the firewall?
Any suggestions please?
If you need to see the config file, or the log, let me know an E-mail address, and I will send them on over
Thanks
Steve
Thanks for the extra information. I could see the global buffer size being an issue if I was also using other iSCSI devices, but at the moment, that's not an issue for me. The tape drive is an older unit, 1998, so not ancient, but certainly it predates the iSCSI concepts, so I may still run into issues with it.valery (staff) wrote:Steve,
But please keep in mind that changing of MaxBufferSize is global to all StarPort's devices.
So setting MaxBufferSize too small can lead to performance degradation for other devices accessed with StarPort (like hard drives, CD/DVD burners, etc).
Steve,Steve Garry wrote:OK, update on the testing, I've hit a problem with the NTBACKUP which looks like it's the one reported in the starport forum, the backup seems to work fine, but as it then rewinds to start the verify, it throws an error that's not appearing in any of the logs at the moment.
Is there a starport log of any sort, and if there is, where is it, and how do I look at the levels of reporting?
I'm going to try the Microsoft initiator, and see if there's any difference, and take it from there
Cheers
Steve