Microsoft KB Archive/124730

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Tape Backup Units Supported in Windows 95

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Q124730

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows 95

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SUMMARY
This article lists the tape backup units supported by the Windows 95 Backup program.

MORE INFORMATION
The Windows 95 Backup program supports the following tape backup units:

  QIC 40, QIC 80, and QIC 3010 tape drives made by the following companies, and connected to the primary floppy disk controller:      Colorado Memory Systems (CMS) Conner IOmega Wangtek (only in "hardware phantom mode" or "Drive B sharing mode")  CMS QIC 40, QIC 80, and QIC 3010 tape drives connected to a parallel port.

The following items are not compatible with Backup:


 * Drives connected to a secondary floppy disk controller or to an accelerator card.
 * Archive drives.
 * Irwin AccuTrak tapes.
 * Irwin drives.
 * Mountain drives.
 * QIC Wide tapes (Backup supports QIC Wide drives using QIC 80 tapes).
 * QIC 3020 drives.
 * SCSI tape drives.
 * Summit drives.
 * Tape drive controllers of any type.
 * Travan drives.

Note that some floppy-controller-driven tape backup units require firmware revisions to work properly with the Windows 95 Backup program.