>> Well, apart from the general level of difficulty of getting any SCSI
>> device to work properly in the first place,
> 
> Not difficult at all, as long as the bus is properly terminated.  90% of 
> all SCSI issues are improperly terminated buses.  10% are probably 
> mismatched SCSI technologies (speed, etc).

And how many of them are "Windows NT doesn't support this model of tape 
drive"?

>> it *is* quite annoying how
>> every single damn time BE has any kind of problem, it refuses to respond
>> to any user input until you forcibly terminate all its services. I don't
>> know *why* they bothered having a "cancel job" button; it never ever
>> works!
> 
> Well, if the problem is a hardware-related problem, that kinda makes 
> sense - the system has to wait for the hardware to respond.  I don't 
> think any backup program would work properly if there was a hardware 
> issue...

What, you mean like the way the entire Windows user shell locks up 
completely for several seconds every time you close the CD tray? 
[Seriously, have these people never *heard* of threading?!]

BE just seems to be very bad at handling any kind of problem that might 
crop up. If everything goes perfectly, BE is happy. If the tiniest thing 
goes wrong, it gets all upset and won't do anything any more...

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