In article <[log in to unmask]>, David Evans
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>Does anyone in the group have experience of these drives? I just
>bought one to back up my hard disk at home and it seems to take
>forever. It is plugged into the parallel port of my laptop and takes
>at least 20 hours to back up 900 MB of data. Only about 2 hours of
>this time is the backup itself. The rest is the "compare" function
>which verifies the backed up data. Is this normal for external tape
>drives? I expected it to be slow but not this slow!
I sent mine back, it was more or less un-useable then broke a tape
during backup.
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Tim Walter
Emis User Group
http://www.yingtong.demon.co.uk/emispage/eeugroup.htm
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