Re: Help with a Colorado Jumbo 250

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From: Roy M. Silvernail
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:46

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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.

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