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Hello,

I had some trouble with a CMS Jumbo 250MB tape drive,
the shop where I bought it replaced it by a Archive model
5580 (as far as I know, there are three model numbers
which identify the same tape drive.  The only difference
is the "size":  5 1/4", 3 1/2"  and 1").  I don't know if
it is a good deal for me.  If you have some useful
information about this please reply by e-mail.

Something else:
	The software which came along with it was CPBACKUP
	V7.2.  I'm having trouble with formatting tapes with
	this piece of software (I tried this on 2 computers,
	and the tapes (3 of them) can be formatted just fine
	in another tape drive (CMS) with CPB).  CPBACKUP
	formats the tapes with *NO* error message (One would
	expect an message that it couldn't format the tape(s),
	won't you?).  When I try to access the tape I get an
	error message which tells me that the tape first should
	be formatted!  I personally think the error is due to
	some timing trouble (of the soft- and/or hardware).

	So: are you using also Archive the above mentioned tape
	streamer?  Do you also have any trouble (with CPBACKUP)?

Please use e-mail (perry@win.tue.nl) if you reply.

Thx in advance,

Perry Egelmeers


PS:  If you read one of my other questions, which are also posted in this
	area, you will probably have noticed that I've trouble with some
	3M tapes which have bad blocks.  But I'm pretty sure that the
	above problem is *NOT* "a tapes with bad block(s) problem".