Win NT Driver for Colorado Jumbo 250 Tape Backup?
Truc Hoang
the Colorado Memory Systems Jumbo 250 Tape backup? Or
a phone number for CMS so I can call and ask? Apparently,
CMS has an anonymous ftp site, ftp.cms.com and I found only
Dos, Unix, and Xenix drivers there.
Truc Hoang
Nate Gardner
If you are using NT 3.5, the driver for this tape drive is the QIC-40/
QIC-80 driver listed when you run the Windows NT Setup applet and
select Add/Remove Tape Drives... It works just fine (although it
does tend to poll the drive a lot), but doesn't support software
data compression. This means you are only going to store 120 MB
per tape, instead of 250.
Good luck,
Nate
Harald Kapper
the Colorado Memory Systems Jumbo 250 Tape backup?<<
Use the QIC-80 driver included in Win NT. Although it doesn*t support
data-software-compression it works fine -- only with 120 Megabytes.
Harry.
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The standard QIC117 drivers which come with NT work fine, but there is no
compression (i.e. your 250 is really only a 120). Backup Exec from Arcada
supports compression and the Jumbo drives, but it is expensive...
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Skip Coppola
Diane Greer
: >>the Colorado Memory Systems Jumbo 250 Tape backup? Or
: >>a phone number for CMS so I can call and ask? Apparently,
: >>CMS has an anonymous ftp site, ftp.cms.com and I found only
: >>Dos, Unix, and Xenix drivers there.
: >
: >The standard QIC117 drivers which come with NT work fine, but there is no
: >compression (i.e. your 250 is really only a 120). Backup Exec from Arcada
: >supports compression and the Jumbo drives, but it is expensive...
: >
I have asked the folks at the CMS Bulletin board this question many times
over the past several months. They have responded that they are not aware
of any software development efforts inside the company to build drivers for
the Junbo 250 or the parallel 250. I have finally given up asking and
decided to look for another drive to backup my NT system. Their BB
number is 303 635-0650.
Diane Greer
Kerry Podolsky
workstation.
No problem, I told NT to use the QIC40/80 drive. The basic
backup utility in NT will NOT DO software compression, ONLY
hardware compression. There is a product from Conner called
Backup Exec which is the BIG brother to the backup util
supplied with NT. It WILL do software compression on the 250
tape drive.
Kerry
Jim Hayward
> : >>the Colorado Memory Systems Jumbo 250 Tape backup?
> : >
> : >The standard QIC117 drivers which come with NT work fine, but there is no
> : >compression (i.e. your 250 is really only a 120).
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't a Jumbo 250 a QIC-80 tape ?? I had one
and used it with the QIC-80 interface with no problems, until it died.
Then I bought a Conner Tape.Store 250. Now THAT puppie has problems !
Jim Hayward, HNCo
(604)743-3191
Ken Johnson
: > : >>Does anyone know if there exists a Windows NT driver for
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None yet, but CMS is working on Jumbo/Trakker software that will run
under NT.
: Jim Hayward, HNCo
: (604)743-3191