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rsilver@exa.cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:

>In article <1jhdpdINNqfo@morrow.stanford.edu> salem@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Bruce Salem) writes:
>>My problem is that I cannot even format a tape. Format, which takes
>>two hours!, only gets 50% done and does seeks on the tape forever after
>>that and past the time estimated.

>I just got a Jumbo 120 this past weekend.  The software is deadly slow.

>>I have a Mycom Computer with a 20 mHz 386, 387, and 4 mb ram runing DOS 3.30
>>and Windows 3.1 . 

>Try running with turbo off.  I have to do that or drive communication
>fails.  On the other hand, the backup restored smoothly onto newly
>formatted hard drives.  (I lost a controller card at the same time, and
>the tape drive was a real help in the transition)

>I've formatted 2 tapes so far, and neither went on the first try.  I'm
>hoping there is something better in driver software available.

I don't know whether or not this applies in either of your two cases, but
I remember reading somewhere (I doubt it was in the docs, since they're so
godawful) that you should turn off the "simultaneous disk drive access"
option in the setup program if you're having performance problems.  Sorry,
I don't remember much more than this (I don't have a Jumbo, but I tried to
set one up for someone last summer).

I think HP recently bought out Colorado Memory Systems; hopefully they'll
upgrade the dogshit software.

You might want to try Central Point Backup for Windows (7.2, I think, is the
most recent version).

-dwh-
dhess@cs.stanford.edu