Tape drives

[Doug Barnes]

I know Microsoft feels everyone who uses XP only uses
large tape drives, but does anyone know of a way of
running a QIC80 type floppy interface drive on XP
There are times when it's usefull to be able to use the
old 250MB tape instead of 4/8 GB DATs

[GTS]

XP does not support tape drives interfaced to a floppy controller. There's
no way around that to my knowledge. XP does, by the way, support IDE
connected tape drives using QIC tapes (with the proper driver of course).
Some of these can use the older low capacity QIC tapes also. (e.g. I have a
Colorado 8Gb IDE drive in one machine that I have used to retrieve data from
some old, low capacity, QIC tapes.)

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"Doug Barnes" > wrote in message
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> I know Microsoft feels everyone who uses XP only uses
> large tape drives, but does anyone know of a way of
> running a QIC80 type floppy interface drive on XP
> There are times when it's usefull to be able to use the
> old 250MB tape instead of 4/8 GB DATs

[Doug BArnes]

Thanks for that, may as well keep my old WINME bootable
partition up then and use that to download tapes
>-----Original Message-----
>XP does not support tape drives interfaced to a floppy
controller. There's
>no way around that to my knowledge. XP does, by the way,
support IDE
>connected tape drives using QIC tapes (with the proper
driver of course).
>Some of these can use the older low capacity QIC tapes
also. (e.g. I have a
>Colorado 8Gb IDE drive in one machine that I have used to
retrieve data from
>some old, low capacity, QIC tapes.)
>
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>GTS Computer Service
>serving northern New Jersey
>www.gtscomputerservice.com
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>
>"Doug Barnes" > wrote in message
...
>> I know Microsoft feels everyone who uses XP only uses
>> large tape drives, but does anyone know of a way of
>> running a QIC80 type floppy interface drive on XP
>> There are times when it's usefull to be able to use the
>> old 250MB tape instead of 4/8 GB DATs
>
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