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
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----- Original Message -----
From: "George&Mary Skokan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 7:59 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Help on T3000?


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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