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I'd appreciate any help or comments or suggestions on the following:

 I have a Ibm compatible computer 286 (12 Mhz) .  
I'm trying to use an old ITT Internal Tape Drive (60meg).  The controller and
drive fits fine into my PC, and I can access it okay using 4.01 Dos (but
it doesn't work with 3.3 Dos).  I can use the tape software (QIC.EXE) that
comes with it, but the only things I can do is tape utilities, such as
erasing the tape.  Every time I try to BACKUP my hard disk C:, I get 
a read/write tape error (8088) or the like.  I can't figure it out.
I KNOW the tape if fine, tried it on another drive unit and works fine.

Any help on this would be appreciated very much.

Rob Gasser
University of Toledo