magid@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Magid) (08/09/90)
Colorado tape software v2.23-2.4 {for their QIC-40 drives} refuses to
work under Windows 3. It gives me a controller not found error. Has anyone
solved this problem? If so, what is the trick? Does anyone know of how to
get a hold of Colorado Memory Systems INC? A support number, or a BBS number
perhaps? Thank you in advance.
Paulstrobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) (08/10/90)
magid@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Magid) writes: > Colorado tape software v2.23-2.4 {for their QIC-40 drives} refuses to >work under Windows 3. It gives me a controller not found error. Has anyone >solved this problem? If so, what is the trick? Does anyone know of how to >get a hold of Colorado Memory Systems INC? A support number, or a BBS number >perhaps? Thank you in advance. >Paul I have a Irwin 2080 drive and use it with the their EzTape software. Just for curiosity I tried to use it under Windows 3, in enhanced mode. I had to run it fullscreen, with fixed memory and exclusively, and I had to increase DMABufferSize to 29 (in system.ini). Windows itself told me to increase the buffer size. With all these modifications EzTape works without problems. But the above way to run it is not much different from running it standalone. I prefer to do my backups safe, so I run them standalone, anyway. If I switch from fullscreen to windowed after I started EzTape, it replies with "no media in drive", immediatly. Wolfgang Strobl #include <std.disclaimer.hpp>
ms234210@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Mark T. Spence) (08/12/90)
As a tech support engineer at Colorado Memory Systems I too was interested in seeing whether our tape drive would run thru Windows or not. It will. It *won't* run thru a window or in the background, but it will run as an exclusive, full-windowed operation with DMABufferSize set to 32. I would also reccomend increasing the operation's time-slice well up from 100. It will run that way, but is a bit too slow for my tastes. Any attempts to run our tape software as a window or in the background will result in errors 90 or 92--tape sw incompatability/ non-responsive floppy controller chip. For point of interest, our sw engineers are currently working on our own DOS-based, background software. But for now the best way to run our tape drive is still outside of Windows. Attention all replies to: ms234210@longs.lance.colostate.edu "You know, I could corrupt these children; over the years I could turn their innocent minds toward a life of wrongdoing. Yes! I could mold them in my image, hone them into criminal geniuses--the only ones capable of carrying on my empire! Ah...but who's got the time--toss 'em in." Fat Cat