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In article <541769850wnr@tiwc.demon.co.uk>, mrcollin@tiwc.demon.co.uk 
says...
>
>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.
>-- 
What version of PC Tools are you running? I had the same problem on
my P90 until I upgraded to version 2.0 . Also check your bus speed.
I found that everything but the tape backup functioned perfectly on
another machine that kept giving DMA errors, so that I could restore,
but not backup. I made sure the ISA bus was running at 8 Mhz max,
and the tape drive worked fine. The hard drive and floppies worked
fine at 11 Mhz, but the tape backup was more sensitive to ISA bus speed.
( Regardless of whether the tape was on the floppy connector or
a tape accelerator card )
Good luck.