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On 26 Jan 93 21:38:01 GMT, davel@comtch.spk.wa.us (Dave Laird) said:

>> browner@rm1.interlan.com (Michael Browner) writes:
> The drive is a good drive, the software will drive you crazy.
> 

>> But, if you are a wise and frugal user of a CMS drive and the software is 
>> driving you nuts (which it will if you try to USE it) then turn your back 
>> on the mess and buy the latest copy of PC Tools by Central Point 
>> Software. I am not an apologist for Central Point, nor an employee. But I 
>> do know that they have a version of a tape backup program that runs in 
>> enhanced mode in Windows 3.1 (Not too well in 3.0) like a thoroughbred. I 
>> can be minimized, and it has a full set of features. Aside from the fact 
>> that PC Tools now takes up 8.4 megs of hard disk real estate, its a fine 
>> application. But the tape drive support is _excellent_. Bar none.

I have had good success with Norton Backup also with my CMS 250. This was part
of Norton Desktop for Windows 2.0. 

My only problem is that it takes nearly 2 hours to format a 2120 tape. 
Backing up about 200 MB takes much less than that. 

-amitabh.
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