On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:49:35 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

>>> And how many of them are "Windows NT doesn't support this model of
>>> tape drive"?
>> 
>> Very few, as NT is out of support now. ;-)
> 
> Tell me about it...

Well, you see, NT is out of support now..... ;-)

>>> 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?!]
>> 
>> I've seen that a few times, but it's been a while since I don't run
>> Windows natively any more.
> 
> Same thing happens if you accidentally click on A: by mistake. Entire
> Windows shell locks up for a few seconds while it repeatedly polls the
> device until it's quite sure there's no disk there. *sigh*

Yup.

>>> 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...
>> 
>> Well, if something goes wrong with backup software, arguably you WANT
>> it to tell you and not complete its task.  After all, an incomplete
>> backup isn't much use to anyone with a dead system.
> 
> No, but when I give it a new tape and tell it to restart the backup
> operation, it would be damn useful if it would start *doing* the backup
> rather than just sitting there looking at me! :-S

Well, yes, I can't argue that point. :-)

Jim

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