5-9 Troubleshooting
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
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
Compaq SLR Tape Drive User Guide
