re colorado jumbo for gateway pd world std com peter f davis writes i ve just installed a new colorado jumbo tape backup unit from gateway and i have a couple of complaints with it i don t know how common or serious these problems may be i would appreciate some feedback from others who have used this system btw this is on a dx v tower system i have a similar configuration colorado mb on dx tower the problems are o firstly gateway shipped me only mb tapes even though the drive is a mb unit when i called to complain they only said that s all we carry and with compression you can fit mb on one tape maybe so but then why did i pay extra for the large capacity tape drive you got suckered in the same way i did silly me believing that the logo on the front meant actual carrying capacity the people who do this sort of thing for a living call it marketing lawyers who prosecute it call it fraud perhaps we can have a bunch of other duped buyers march on their corporate headquarters o i have about mb of data on my c drive i choose the space optimizing compression scheme and started a full backup the software estimated it would take about minutes it took hours does this sound about right this is a bit long my system takes about minutes to do the same thing usually hours particularly if the tape is grinding away the whole time means that your block size for the write is too small is there any way to change the block size or write buffer size so it s bigger o during the backup about a dozen files came up with access denied errors most of these were in c windows system comm drv keyboard drv shell dll etc but also c windows progman exe and a couple of files in the c tape directory anyone else had this happen this is because the files are opened by dos the files in the tape directory are likely the executable file or the configuration file for the tape system i would recommend running the backup from dos so it will make a complete backup of the tape directory thanks for any and all feedback on this system i d also appreciate hearing of good sources for blank tape cartridges preferably mb size the mb cartridges won t do you any good since the drive won t write mb of physical data on the tape thanks pd brent williams brentw netcom com san jose california
