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- From: bharris@hfglobe.intel.com (Bennie Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Jumbo 250 MB QUI-80 & OS/2
- Message-ID: <BxGt63.FoL@hfglobe.intel.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 20:06:01 GMT
- Article-I.D.: hfglobe.BxGt63.FoL
- References: <1992Nov9.091009.11409@ugle.unit.no>
- Organization: Intel Corporation
- Lines: 55
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- kvien@elkraft.Unit.NO (Oddgeir Kvien) writes:
-
- >I have just got a Jumbo 250 MB tape streamer. I have been trying to
- >use it in a dos session under OS2 but with no much sucsess. I am able
- >to back up some MB and then an error appears. (drive communication
- >error, error uppdating fat on tape or something similar). I am using
- >the tape software which came with the tape.
-
- >When I am running the CRT check (tape crt) it tells me that there is
- >electrical interference, but I got the internal version of the tapedriver
- >so i can not move it, and i have turned of my monitor and the interference
- >stil is there (I can heare the beep in the loudspeaker). I can not understand
- >that there should be some electrical interference inside my computer which
- >is affecting my tape and not my motherboard. (The interference could come
- >from the powersuply, it is a ZEC 220W switch mode power suply).
- >The electrical interference is there also when I am booting up DOS with a
- >floppy (my entire disk is HPFS).
-
- >Trying to formate a tape in a dos session under OS2 also fails after a short
- >time, formating it when I am booting up DOS works all rigth (1h50m formating
- >time)
-
- >Is there something wrong with my tape drive (I don't think so) or do other
- >people have the same probleme?
-
-
- >My computer:
- >TCI 486DX 33MHz (Contaqu main board, ISA)
- >20 MB ram (70ns)
- >200 MB Maxtor HD
- >IDE cache controller w/1MB (I also tryed anothe one with no difference)
- >3 1/2" floppy A
- >Trident 9000 (512kB)
- >Norwegian GA with english CSD (I just changed the numbers in the SYSLEVEL file)
-
- >********************************************************************
-
- >I hope you can read my english
- >---------------------------------------------------------------------
- > __ Oddgeir Kvien
- > / \ | / Norwegian Institute of Technology
- >| | | / Faculty of Electrical Enginering
- >| | |/ and Computer Science
- >| | | \
- > \__/ ddgeir | \vien email: kvien@elkraft.unit.no
- >---------------------------------------------------------------------
- >#####################################################################
-
- You have to run your tape backups under "native" DOS. It will not
- work under the os2-dos session. I have a CMS 250M tape backup and
- it works fine after I dualboot to regular DOS. However it will
- only work for FAT drives but I hear that CMS is working on an OS/2
- version of their backup software expected out by the end of the year.
-
- -- Bennie Harris
-