The other working drive is configured exactly like this drive, on the floppy cable, and is runninng on Win98SE using Seagate Backup Program. The only difference is that it is on an IBM and this one is on a Trigem. I had sent some more info(but had missed the send orginal message...sorry) that the floppy drive works fine. Also the mechanical(movement) controls are working. TriGem had said that there are no updates to this machine.

On Thu, 4 May 2000 20:30:19 -0500, Troy Havard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Additionally, I was told by iomega (had a similar prob with one of their drives)
>that it would not be possible to utilize the floppy channel for tape devices due
>to the way win98 handled it.  On the one that is working, is it on a 98 machine
>and is it floppy channel?
>>Troy

>>"Gary R. Tennesen" wrote:
>> First of all, is your tape drive using the floppy channel?
> I've had past experience where updating the the BIOS or the drivers for the
>> Intel or VIA chipset has made the HP more readable from the floppy i/o
>> channel.
>> Go to the website of your motherboard and begin with IDE or chipset driver
>> updates before going after the BIOS.
>> Hope this helps.
>> gary r. tennesen
>> [log in to unmask]
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "George&Mary Skokan" <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>
>> I just bought a new OEM Colorado Backup for a "good?" price at auction and
>> installed it.  (System Win98SE, TriGem 166MHz, 48Meg RAM).  It makes the
>> right noises on start up, and the light blinks just like the one in the
>> other machine, but I cannot read or write to it.  When I try to use the
>> Win98 Backup to identify, format, initialize or backup, I get a message that
>> it is unable to read the tape because it is either unformatted or unable to
>> identify the format.  When I try to format the tape it give me an unable to
>> format the tape.  The tapes that I have are recognized by another T3000
>> drive in another similar machine.   Does anyone have any debug ideas?   I
>> carefully took the circuit board off the top and seated the ribbon cable to
>> the heads, but no change.  No documentation came with the machine, and the
>> HP website talks more about trouble with the Colorado software.    THX
>> George&Mary Skokan ([log in to unmask])

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