Iomega Tape Drive + Plato problem

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From: Michael Roy Collins
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 1995 15:51

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Hi folks,

	Just wondering if anyone is using an Iomega 250mb tape drive
with an Intel Plato 90 motherboard. 

	I have just replaced my Revenge 60 with the Plato 90 and now
the Iomega tape software refuses to find a formatted tape. I have
checked the tapes in another system, where they work fine. 

	I have read that there appears to be a problem with the Plato
and floppy controller when the OS is WinNT. Could this be the same 
thing I wonder? 

	I have also used Central Points PCTools for Windows which also
reports the same problem. If I select the "format tape" option all goes
well and the system reports the correct tape capacity after formatting.
However when I then try to backup to the newly formatted tape, the 
system says that the tape is not formatted.

	I have checked with a "clean" setup from both DOS and Windows
but I always get the same problem

Any ideas as to what is going on and -more importantly- anyone got a 
fix for this?

TIA Mike.
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