Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
> >
> I do not know about your unit, but for my Conner Tape drive on a separate
> CTC-2Mb floppy controller, I must reduce the transfer rate from 2000 to
> 1000 to avoid shoe-shining. While the controller can keep up at the higher
> speeds, my system is busy enough with other things (including Seti@home
> running at nice 19) that the 166 MHz Pentium cannot keep up at the higher
> speed. Since cron does the backups for me while I am asleep, the fact that
> it does not run at top speed is not a concern for me. Possibly your
> problem.
I have nothing else running on my p90. This unit came from Seagate
under the name Tape stor, but everything I have seen on it says it is a
Conner. It is reconganized as such by all software that has recongnized
it. Also uses the ctc-2Mb floppy controller.
When I first got it, I could not get it to work well under dos or
win3.11. When I downgraded to win95 it would not work under dos, but
would do just fine under win95 gui. It reported a different address for
the jumpers I had than the manual claimed it should be, but it was
working. Of course, since it didn't work under the dos (text mode
interface) it was a catch 22. When windoze crashed I had to reinstall
windowz to do a backup. Of course if it wasn't for windoze I wouldn't
need the backup. ;^)
Guess I can try slowing it down. How do I do that?
Thanks.
--
Ken Lowther
Youngstown, Ohio
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