e call
>completes you can be doing waitnextevent so the computer is not FROZE during this
>time. (Which can be over 1 minute for some media!)
>
> Tom
>
> > Reply to: RE: during retrospect rewind the tape...
> >Oops! That last paragraph was wrong. What I meant to
This is a good example of when to use the asynchronous scsi calls. While the call
completes you can be doing waitnextevent so the computer is not FROZE during this
time. (Which can be over 1 minute for some media!)
Tom
> Reply to: RE: during retrospect rewind the tape...
>Oops
Reply to: RE: during retrospect rewind the tape...
Oops! That last paragraph was wrong. What I meant to say was...
>The reason it takes so long? My guess is that Retrospect is waiting
until
>the command that it sent to the tape drive (to REWIND) has completed
>before freei
Reply to: RE: during retrospect rewind the tape...
Lionel,
Retrospect will now always rewind your tape when you quit the application
to (among other reasons) prevent problems writing an end of data marker.
We were finding that with certain tape drives, if you told Retrospect (in
When I quit retrospect, retrospect rewind the tape of my DAT backup system..
During this process, about 30-60 seconds, retrospect keep all mac
processor time and does'nt permit to clic behind, even the finder...
!??
I think that's a nice feature well thinking by Dantz, but I
don't see
