This is just a stab in the dark Steve, but I am guessing the the low RAM
is causing your problems.  Tape drives stream the data and at 16 Meg, I
think the tape software is overrunning the available RAM and it doesn't
know how to recover.

The Zip drive works because it uses less sophisticated compress and copy
techniques which do not stream the data.

Add more RAM and try the most recent software for whichever drive you
attempt to use.

Jim Meagher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Walley <[log in to unmask]>


>I'm trying to get a tape drive to work on a
>IBM clone, Pentium 150 MHz, 16 MB RAM.
>
>So far I have tried (internal) a Colorado 350,
>Ditto 800, and a Ditto 2 GB (with and without
>a Ditto accelerator card). Also (external)
>a Ditto 800, Ditto 2 GB, and a Sony SuperStor.
>All work fine on other computers.
>
>I have tried changing the printer port
>BIOS settings between SPP and ECP.
>
>All work for a few minutes, then the computer
>"freezes" and the video goes black.
>

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