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- From: veachm@mohr.ENGR.ORST.EDU ( Michael Veach)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: HELP WITH A COLORADO
- Message-ID: <1k77vpINN2fr@mohr.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 00:05:13 GMT
- References: <31827.806.uupcb@spacebbs.com>
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- In article <31827.806.uupcb@spacebbs.com> allen.edwards@spacebbs.com (Allen Edwards) writes:
- >-> >My problem is that I cannot even format a tape. Format, which takes
- >-> >two hours!, only gets 50% done and does seeks on the tape forever
- >-> after >that and past the time estimated.
- Sorry if this is the umteenth reply on this but I just had to reply
- I had the same Problem, Rather my former roommate had the same
- problem and It worked fine in my computer. The final kludge solut-
- ion was to install 2 ide cards. one was his origional multi i/o
- card with the floppies disabled and the other was a generic
- hdd/fdd card connected to the jumbo and floppies. It was a kludge
- but it did work. He also found out that (I Believe) Central point
- backup 4 windows will format and read the tape using just the multi card
- hope this helps
-
- veachm@mohr.me.orst.edu
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