Iomega Ditto Tools 5.1a and Windows95

Lawrence H. Robins

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Mar 22, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/22/97

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I have an Iomega Ditto 3200 (Travan TR-3 type) internal tape
drive, bought about 1 year ago, with the Ditto Tools 5.1a
software (a.k.a. Arcada Backup). I'm planning to get Windows
95. The installation disk says "Windows and Windows 95".
Does Ditto Tools 5.1a backup/restore long filenames under
Windows 95? Do I need to do anything to re-install the
software after installing Windows 95, or just leave it the
way it is? Thanks in advance for your help!

p.s. I didn't see any information about this on the Iomega
web site, nor any update to the software.

Lawrence H. Robins

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the views of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Lawrence H. Robins

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Mar 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/25/97

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I wrote:
>
> I have an Iomega Ditto 3200 (Travan TR-3 type) internal tape
> drive, bought about 1 year ago, with the Ditto Tools 5.1a
> software (a.k.a. Arcada Backup). I'm planning to get Windows
> 95. The installation disk says "Windows and Windows 95".
> Does Ditto Tools 5.1a backup/restore long filenames under
> Windows 95? Do I need to do anything to re-install the
> software after installing Windows 95, or just leave it the
> way it is? Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> p.s. I didn't see any information about this on the Iomega
> web site, nor any update to the software.
>

I discovered that (yes, Virginia, ...) there *is* information
about the "Ditto Tools" software at the Iomega Web site and
you *can* get an update to the current Windows version (5.2.1).

The bad news is, the tape software is available only from
their BBS at 801-778-5888, they claim this is a restriction
imposed by the "3rd party" they license the software from.

For full details, see
http://www.iomega.com/support/techs/ditto/
in particular the following documents:
http://www.iomega.com/support/techs/ditto/1000.html
../3011.html
../3050.html
../3108.html
../3035.html

James Shum

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Mar 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/26/97

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In article <333451...@nist.gov>, lawrenc...@nist.gov wrote:
>I have an Iomega Ditto 3200 (Travan TR-3 type) internal tape
>drive, bought about 1 year ago, with the Ditto Tools 5.1a
>software (a.k.a. Arcada Backup). I'm planning to get Windows
>95. The installation disk says "Windows and Windows 95".
>Does Ditto Tools 5.1a backup/restore long filenames under
>Windows 95? Do I need to do anything to re-install the
>software after installing Windows 95, or just leave it the
>way it is? Thanks in advance for your help!
>
>p.s. I didn't see any information about this on the Iomega
>web site, nor any update to the software.

The restore procedure is as follows.

Reinstall Windows 95 from scratch. Just a basic configuration is needed,
really all you need is enough so you can boot into Windows 95. Reinstall the
Ditto Tools software, then restore. You would likely have to rebuild your
catalogue from the tape, so when backing up, make sure you have the
Save catalogue on tape option set. When it's all said and done, reboot the
computer and it should be restored. I've done this a few times and it's worked
more or less everytime.

BTW, the latest Ditto Tools software is 5.2.1, which adds the Tape drive to
the System Hardware configuration under System in the Control Panel.

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Chris Williams

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Mar 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/26/97

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On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 18:38:25 -0500, "Lawrence H. Robins"
<lawrenc...@nist.gov> wrote:

>The bad news is, the tape software is available only from
>their BBS at 801-778-5888, they claim this is a restriction
>imposed by the "3rd party" they license the software from.

You can get it from:

http://www.uppsala.se/stadsteatern/andreas/engelska.html

Chris

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Lawrence H. Robins

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Mar 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/26/97

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Thanks to Andréas Schütz (Uppsala, Sweden) and Chris
Williams (South Africa) for this tip.

By the way, I learned that it is really inconvenient
to download a file from a BBS unless your PC is directly
attached to a modem with a standard phone line (like a
home computer user would typically have). Even someone
in our PC Support department was frustrated in his
attempt to get the file from the Iomega BBS. So I'm
glad you indicated an "alternative" site.

And for home users, how about the expense of the long
distance phone call (including the time to download a
2MB file)? Doesn't seem like Iomega cares much about
supporting their customers.

Lawrence Robins
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in any way represent the views or policies of the

Robert Bacola

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Mar 29, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/29/97

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james@[*SPAM_PREVENTION.DELETE_BEFORE_SENDING*]interlog.com (James
Shum) wrote:

>BTW, the latest Ditto Tools software is 5.2.1, which adds the Tape drive to
>the System Hardware configuration under System in the Control Panel.

Would this mean then that the Backup.exe program that comes with Win
95 could then detect and use the Internal Ditto 3.2 accelrator card
and drive?

James Shum

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Apr 1, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/1/97

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Not sure. I had thought I read somewhere that the Windows 95 BackUp does not
support Travan tapes, which are probably the best ones to use on this drive
since I believe they offer the highest compression of all compatible tapes. I
use Travan tapes with the included Ditto Tools. Works well enough so I'm not
about to mess around with MS BackUp!