hi there,
does anybody out there happen to have BRU working with the HP Colorado
T3000? I just picked one up and really hope it isn't known to be
incompatible. It says it complies with QIC-3020 Wide which ftape is
supposed to work with.
That said I am having a hard time determining if this tape drive i have is
bad. Because I have no experience with tape drives under Linux I thought I
had better test it under DOS first. If I can see it work under DOS then I
figure everything should be fine under Linux. Every time I try to read or
write from the drive though I get really weird errors, system hangs, and
reboots. same goes for trying to do a format. This is using the DOS
TAPE.EXE program that ships with the T3000. I've tried it in 3 different
machines all 486's and each time have more or less the same problems.
I'm pretty sure I am installing it correctly. I've tried connecting it as
B: drive on the floppy cable and back-packing it off the floppy controller
with it's own cable. same results. I've tried 3 different tapes with it as
well. I've run "tape diagnose" and it says everything is communicating
with the drive just fine but then fails the format test.
One thing I am wondering about is the Setup program on the CD asks me to
choose between a few different models of tape drives. The jumbo, trakker,
T1000, T3000. I pick the T3000 but then it seems to install the software
for the jumbo. Maybe it's the same? I know the Jumbo used smaller capacity
tapes but maybe this doesn't matter? I've talked to the HP Hold Line and
the got me to download the newest version of the Dos software from their
site but it seems to be the same. it also says that it is for the Jumbo.
The system I am installing this in is an older 486DX-33 with 20MB of RAM.
IT has a VESA mother board (that old) and an old IO card which seems to
work fine with every other device. I doubt it's the system though cause
I've also tried it in 2 other machines. I got way different errors in one
that was running win95 with a PCI board though. The win95 was giving C++
runtime errors before shutting down. I'm really at a loss.
The reason I am having a hard time with this is that I have already
exchanged one drive that was having the same problems and have a hard time
believing I got 2 bad drives in a row. I'm not declaring it impossible or
anything I just want to be sure before I bring it back to the wholesaler I
bought it from.
if anyone can offer any suggestions I'm wide open. Sorry the majority of
this message deals with DOS more than Linux. Rest assured that this drive
will be running in Red Hat as soon as I ensure it will work.
thanks,
rob
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