You might try installing a tape drive accellerator card.
That way the tape drive will be run from the card
using different resources.

It also speeds up tape drive backups.

I use a Ditto Dash card with my Iomega Ditto 2 GB tape
drive.

Steven
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-----Original Message-----
From: QJ <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, October 08, 1999 5:07 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Floppy & tape conflict


>G'day,
>
>I have installed a NT4 server for client. Every thing works find except
>the Floppy drive. Client has an old tape backup drive, he asked me if I
>can move it to server. NT detected the tape drive as "Floppy tape drive"
>and installed driver from NT cd. The tape drive works fine after that,
>however, the floppy drive now stopped working. It won't read any disk
>because "Resource already in use" error massage.
>
>I changed another floppy drive with no luck, so that I know the hardware
>has no problem. The problem must be conflict between tape drive and
>floppy drive (they are on same cable). Could someone tell me how to
>resolve it? Since the tape drive has set to schedule backup daily, I
>can't ask client to disable backup, but as long as the tape is online,
>floppy doesn't work. Please help! (I tried from "controll panel ->
>Devices", it doesn't seem to help)
>
>TIA
>
>Jun Qian
>
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