Charlie
Thu Jun 30 18:20:13 CDT 2005
I think MS has not been at all shy about telling them. The issue is, they
haven't been at all forthcoming with the drivers.
--
Charlie.
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Derek Ragona wrote:
> Well it turns out the real problem was in the driver. The driver
> interacts with the Removable Storage Manager and has to be insync
> with the API and the stock driver is not. I did get a driver from
> Quantum that works.
> As a bit of information, with drivers it looks like you can use the
> same driver accross CPU's, so the same for Itanium, AMD, and Intel
> BUT not with out having the corectly "fully decorated" (which is MS
> terms for properly labeled) .inf install file. Otherwise the drivers
> won't load, sayin it is not for that hardware platform.
>
> Quantum is going to post the complete driver that is for all 64-bit
> versions soon. It would be good if Microsoft told the hardware
> makers to update their driver installations to cover all 64-bit
> operating systems.
> -Derek
>
> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23zKigFcfFHA.1284@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> I was just going to ask the same thing myself. Microsoft needs to
>> start promoting these unknown made up versions of Windows. ;-)
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http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm "Charlie Russel -
>> MVP" <charlie@mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote in
>> message news:O0b2ZjbfFHA.3460@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>> OK, I give. What in the world is "x86 version of Windows Server 2003
>>> 64-bit"
>>>
>>> --
>>> Charlie.
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> Derek Ragona wrote:
>>>> I forgot to mention I am using the x86 version of Windows Server
>>>> 2003 64-bit.
>>>>
>>>> -Derek
>>>>
>>>> "Derek Ragona" <derek@computinginnovations.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:%236rWoKbfFHA.3280@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>>>> I have a server running Windows 2003 standard server with a SCSI
>>>>> SDLT 600 tape drive. I can use the driver that comes with Windows
>>>>> and the drive works fine, passes all diagnostic tests. But it
>>>>> won't put the media into a usable media pool so ntbackup will use
>>>>> the tapes. The tapes are added as unknown media and marked as
>>>>> read only in that media pool. I cannot move the tapes to a
>>>>> different pool as I get an error that the tape is not writeable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to manually configure the RSM so it has the correct
>>>>> tape drive paramaters? The drive works and tests to read and
>>>>> write directly using the manufacturer's diagnostics. But it
>>>>> won't write with backup as the tapes are not being placed in a
>>>>> usable media pool. Any help would be appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Derek