The response of HP Technical Support was laughable: They claimed that no other company besides HP conformed to the QIC standards, and that they 'didn't support any other backup products', including tapes created by previous versions of their own software. I then exchanged the drive at the place of purchase, and found that the new drive could, in fact, read QIC-80 tapes, but that the Colorado Backup Software could not handle the data contained therein if they were created with any other software than Colorado backup, or with any type of data-compression, despite the other software being in total conformance with QIC-80 tape and QIC-117 data-compression standards, and the tapes being readable by every other QIC-compliant software package.

I spent almost a month exchanging over 200 pages of e-mail orrespondence with HP's various 'technical support' personnel before they would finally answer a few simple questions which allowed me to determine that the drive was faulty (and not some other factor). Following my purchase, I found that the drive would not read the QIC-80 tapes, and that the 'Colorado Backup Software' (written by Cheyene Software, for HP) was so flawed as to be useless. HP's literature and technical support people assured me that it would. Prior to making the purchase, I researched the product as thoroughly as possible, including directing specific questions to HP Colorado, in order to make sure that it would meet my needs, among which were that the drive would be able to read the QIC-80 tapes in my archives, that were created with my Colorado Jumbo 250 drive. In July of 1998, I purchased an HP Colorado T3000 tape drive and media. Reshebnik po geografii 7 klass tetradj dlya prakticheskih rabot 2.

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