I have an Exabyte VXA-2 Packet-loader with FireWire
I am using RetroSpect Server v6.0178 device access v1.0.104
Running on an xServe G5 with Mac OS X 10.3.8
When I attempt a backup all is good until the connection to the tape drive is lost. Nothing short of a system reboot and tape drive power cycle will bring it back. Retrospect hangs and is unresponsive and must be Force Quit. Restarting Retrospect reveals NO devices are connected.
This only happens on the xServe where I want it to eventually live. I also have a PowerMac G5 tower I have been using with no problems. Well no problems after I re-installed OS X on that machine.
This has been an issue since day one on several machine with several FireWire cords.
Has anyone had any similar experiences with this sort of set up?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Josh