I posted this in another part of tek-tips not knowing there was a dell server section so please, bear with me.
I upgraded a Dell poweredge 2400 server (formatting the NT drive) over the weekend and it was the slickest install i've ever seen. Currently running as a PDC on an 18 mixed pc network (95 to XP). All pc's are on the network, dns is fine, DHCP scopes are ok etc...
Monday afternoon the server locked up tight and had to be reset. upon reboot, all of the backup exec services failed to load. This was corrected (DOH!), set up admin by accident
with wrong pass to log in as service. Changed this back to system service.
Still getting lockups accessing tape drive with backup exec.
Event viewer shows "event id 9" scsi device failed to respond in time (tape drive). Lockup occurs right away. Locks up every time I try a backup.
Hardware is a dell poweredge 2400, hp colorado 20gb tape drive (ide drive, runs off promise tx2 controller, changed to maxtor 133 (same chipset) with no luck), Mirrored scsi hard drives running from dell backplane and windows 2000 server (PDC), and backup exec 8.6.
This has to be a compatibility with backup exec. I uninstalled BE and installed a trial version of Novastor and everything works like a charm.
Up to the point when I posted this, novastor was running the first tape backup but when they called the next morning, the server locked up with the same result. BE would lock the server up as soon as it started the backup, but novastor would lock up the server a few hours after it started...
Tapedrive is currently running on 98 workstation but I want it back in the server...
Any ideas???
Thanks ~ Whether you think you can or can't, you're right. Henry Ford~
I upgraded a Dell poweredge 2400 server (formatting the NT drive) over the weekend and it was the slickest install i've ever seen. Currently running as a PDC on an 18 mixed pc network (95 to XP). All pc's are on the network, dns is fine, DHCP scopes are ok etc...
Monday afternoon the server locked up tight and had to be reset. upon reboot, all of the backup exec services failed to load. This was corrected (DOH!), set up admin by accident
with wrong pass to log in as service. Changed this back to system service.
Still getting lockups accessing tape drive with backup exec.
Event viewer shows "event id 9" scsi device failed to respond in time (tape drive). Lockup occurs right away. Locks up every time I try a backup.
Hardware is a dell poweredge 2400, hp colorado 20gb tape drive (ide drive, runs off promise tx2 controller, changed to maxtor 133 (same chipset) with no luck), Mirrored scsi hard drives running from dell backplane and windows 2000 server (PDC), and backup exec 8.6.
This has to be a compatibility with backup exec. I uninstalled BE and installed a trial version of Novastor and everything works like a charm.
Up to the point when I posted this, novastor was running the first tape backup but when they called the next morning, the server locked up with the same result. BE would lock the server up as soon as it started the backup, but novastor would lock up the server a few hours after it started...
Tapedrive is currently running on 98 workstation but I want it back in the server...
Any ideas???
Thanks ~ Whether you think you can or can't, you're right. Henry Ford~