Compaq 340622-002 manual 9Troubleshooting, A typical Event Viewer display

5-9Troubleshooting

The following are examples of Stop messages:

■‘The tape device reported an error on a request to read data from tape. Error reported: Bad data.’

■‘Tape device “Archive 1” reported an error on a request to write data to tape. Error reported: Hardware error.’

■‘The device, \Device\Tape0, is not ready for access yet.’

To obtain detailed information on an error reported to the System Event Log, use the following procedure:

1.Start the NT Event Viewer.

2.Select the Log drop-down menu.

3.Select System.

4.Highlight the entry for the tape drive to obtain the appropriate Event Detail display.

Figure 5-3.A typical Event Viewer display

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