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Started by Mark Gould
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:00
NT2000 and tape Backup - Assistance required!
Author: Mark Gould
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:00
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Afternoon I am using Release candidate 2 of NT2000 and a Sony (Scsi!) DDS4 Dat drive which is recognised without any problems by NT. Please excuse me if I am being very dense, but I can not for the love of money get the built in Microsoft backup to see the tape drive. The help files explain that I need to use removable storage to support the tape drive which is all ok. In computer management, I can see removable storage, it sees the cd rom drive, but has no interest in seeing the tape drive under physical locations. What am I doing wrong. With thanks Mark P.S. I will be moving to ArcserveIT as soon as CAI support it's reliably on NT2000 Mark Gould Technical Manager, DesignerCity Ltd Mobile: 07774 212054 E-mail: mark@dctech.co.uk DDI Fax: 0870 160 0889 http://www.designercity.com http://www.funmail.co.uk
Re: NT2000 and tape Backup - Assistance required!
Author: Rob Turk
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:00
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Mark Gould wrote in message <80ebu5$1ue$1@ayers.ftech.net>... >Afternoon >I am using Release candidate 2 of NT2000 and a Sony (Scsi!) DDS4 Dat >drive which is recognised without any problems by NT. > >Please excuse me if I am being very dense, but I can not for the love >of money get the built in Microsoft backup to see the tape drive. > >The help files explain that I need to use removable storage to support >the tape drive which is all ok. > >In computer management, I can see removable storage, it sees the cd rom >drive, but has no interest in seeing the tape drive under physical >locations. > >What am I doing wrong. > >With thanks Mark, Welcome to the club... The only tape drives that are recognised by NT2000 are those on the HCL (Hardware Compatibility List). If your drive is indeed on it, then you found a bug in either the Storage manager, or in the NT2K device driver for your tape drive. If it's NOT on the HCL... well... start sending mail to Sony asking them to provide a NT2K compliant driver for your drive. And yes, the device manager indeed recognises just about all SCSI tape drives and claims they are working just fine... Best regards, Rob
Re: NT2000 and tape Backup - Assistance required!
Author: Mark Gould
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 00:00
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"Rob Turk" <rob.turk@gelrevision.nl> wrote in message news:80fgaj$1hpm$1@thor.wirehub.nl... > Mark Gould wrote in message <80ebu5$1ue$1@ayers.ftech.net>... > >Afternoon > >I am using Release candidate 2 of NT2000 and a Sony (Scsi!) DDS4 Dat > >drive which is recognised without any problems by NT. > > > >Please excuse me if I am being very dense, but I can not for the love > >of money get the built in Microsoft backup to see the tape drive. > > > >The help files explain that I need to use removable storage to support > >the tape drive which is all ok. > > > >In computer management, I can see removable storage, it sees the cd rom > >drive, but has no interest in seeing the tape drive under physical > >locations. > > > >What am I doing wrong. > > > >With thanks > > > Mark, > > Welcome to the club... The only tape drives that are recognised by NT2000 > are those on the HCL (Hardware Compatibility List). If your drive is indeed > on it, then you found a bug in either the Storage manager, or in the NT2K > device driver for your tape drive. If it's NOT on the HCL... well... start > sending mail to Sony asking them to provide a NT2K compliant driver for your > drive. > > And yes, the device manager indeed recognises just about all SCSI tape > drives and claims they are working just fine... > > Best regards, > > Rob > > > See answer below captured from amessage Tony Chow sent (with thank's Tony!) This worked for me! Tony Chow <everblue@ucla.edu> wrote in message news:<#9nKazHK$GA.228@cppssbbsa05>... > Many people have encountered the problem in which the tape drive shows up > under Device Manager but is not detected by any backup software. > > I think the cause here is that while Win2000 might detect the tape drive and > label it correctly in Device Manager, it doesn't actually INSTALL the driver > for you. > > To remedy the situation, go to the properties of the tape drive in question > and manually install the right driver. For SCSI Travan drives, the driver > should be SCSI Mini Cartridge Drive. > > If this works, the drive should show up under Storage\Removable Storage tree > in the Computer Management console. Good luck! > >
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