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- From: shah@tay1.dec.com (Amitabh Shah)
- Subject: Re: Help with a Colorado Jumbo 250
- In-Reply-To: davel@comtch.spk.wa.us's message of 26 Jan 93 21:38:01 GMT
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, TAY1, Littleton MA
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:43:50 GMT
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- On 26 Jan 93 21:38:01 GMT, davel@comtch.spk.wa.us (Dave Laird) said:
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- >> browner@rm1.interlan.com (Michael Browner) writes:
- > The drive is a good drive, the software will drive you crazy.
- >
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- >> 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.
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- I have had good success with Norton Backup also with my CMS 250. This was part
- of Norton Desktop for Windows 2.0.
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- 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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