During the emergency restore there is no conflict as Echo is not loaded and
only Backup Exec would have access to the tape drive device. However the
backup operation is done under the Windows 9x environment. In this case Echo
will load and it will interfere with Backup Exec when Backup Exec tries to
access the tape drive.

As I mentioned in my previous post, Seagate Software had released Direct
Tape Access which is similar to Echo. DTA loaded at Windows startup and made
a tape drive available as a large removable device. Backup Exec sensed the
presence of DTA and when Backup Exec was started it disabled DTA, so Backup
Exec could have control over the tape drive device. Once Backup Exec was
closed, DTA was once again enabled and it got back control over the tape
drive.

John


"Mickey Stein" wrote in message
news:3849E29E.66A7E75E@cts.com...
> I've got be 4.2 & di-30 and the combo works just fine together. I even
tried 2
> emergency backups and restores (to other disks) without a hitch. I tossed
the
> echo software but I'm not sure I understand how the emergency
backup/restore of
> be can possibly be affected by echo. I'm sure I could be wrong about this
but it
> seems that all of the real backup and recovery work is performed at the
dos
> level by be and how echo could be 'owning' a resource at that point is
beyond
> me. I udnerstand why after win98 or whatever is booted that there must be
a
> conflict since one uses the device manager and the other doesn't but not
for
> emergency.
>
> anyway , forwhat it's worth -- I've used be for a couple years
and
> haven't had a problem with it when i needed it.
>
> mick
>
>
> David wrote:
>
> > I have an Onstream DI-30 tape drive which works fine with it's own
software.
> > I also have Veritas Backup Exec 4.2 which also works fine on all other
> > media. I just can't get BE to work with the Onstream tapes. Each and
every
> > time it "shoe-shines" for a couple of minutes and then comes up with
"unable
> > to initialize" or something close to that. this is a Windows 98SE
system
> > and I have disabled any utilities or programs that might interfere. Is
> > anyone using this combination successfully? I would love to be able to
> > make emergency recovery backups to tape. Thanks for any help.
> >
> > David
>