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# Tape Backup Units Supported in Windows 95

Article ID: 124730

Article Last Modified on 11/15/2006

APPLIES TO

- Microsoft Windows 95

This article was previously published under Q124730

## 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.

## REFERENCES

For additional information about tape backup units supported by Backup, view the "Tape drives that are compatible with Backup" online Help topic in Backup (BACKUP.EXE) Help.

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