Tape drive help

[lhuser]

Ok, I just bought a Tape drive and it takes an FDD slot. One thing is: How do I configure my BIOS so I can start using my tape drive?

 

[setishock]

No instructions with it?
I'm gonna have to get in my bios to answer that BRB.

Ok well there is no setting for it in my AMI bios. I would be lead to think it's a SCSI drive and will require a SCSI interface pci card and SCSI cable.

 

[lhuser]

I bought it used. It's an HP colorado T1000

I got it for $5 with a 5GB tape

And it's FDD interface

 

[Kage]

$5??? Wow, not bad. Lets just hope you can get it working.

I wonder how good these drives are as backup purposes. For instance, shelf life? Corruption?

Plus, how long does it take to copy/recieve data back and forth?

 

[lhuser]

Oh it works. It's just not detected....as it uses FDd interface...

Should I get an external Tape drive that has parallel interface instead?

They're good for everything...exept for games

It's faster than a floppy...probably 4MB/sec

 

[setishock]

http://www.jdr.com/PDF/t1000-i.pdf

Here's the driver>>>
http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=65236

I don't how the person posting the driver got past driverguides password but obviously they did. If it doesn't download just sign up and get it.

 

[lhuser]

Looks interesting. I'll install them now and tell what's up after...hope it works

 

[setishock]

Please do. I may get one...

 

[lhuser]

And it didn't...ah well, I'll get an external one with LPT1 interface. You could do this too

 

[setishock]

http://search.hp.com/query.html?col...orado+T1000+Tape+Drive&ocoldqt=t1000&oc=12525

This is support from HP itself.