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I am trying to get this Jombo Colorado 250 to format a tape and am
having no luck.  I have read the postings here and am having no luck.  I
have a 33 MHz 486 clone (AMI bios).  The LIM 4.0 option was set to N and
the dual DMA option was set to N as was suggested in the postings.  The
most complex TSR I have is the mouse driver.  I have the regular stuff
that people have for windows, a ramdrive, a MSCDEX, SHARE, etc, but no
screen savers or disc cache stuff.

I tried the format for 5 hours and it was still running when I did the
three finger salute to stop it.  I have tried 2 backup programs, 2
tapes, and 2 drives (took one back).  It runs fairly smoothly for 1
hour, then seems to go into an endless loop of forward for 1 to 5
seconds, then reverse for about 1 second then it starts over.  Note that
the 1 to 5 sec represents a variability of actual time.  But it is not
doing nothing as the tape moves from one spool to the other about every
hour.

I just know that if I call the 800 number someone will tell me to try
something that won't work and I will wait 30 minuites that time and
another to call back.  Please help,  Thanks in advance, Allen
                                                                                                                          
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