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Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives


On Aug 19 18:40, bartels wrote:
> On 08/19/2013 06:31 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> >
> >First of all, it's not clear to me whether it is a Microsoft problem
> >or a device driver problem.  I would see what's known about the behavior
> >of the devices and their drivers with the specific Windows version you
> >have.  Of course it could be that other tools don't need to ask those
> >same questions, for some reason, so that they end up working fine ..
> 
> Good thinking.
> 
> Running W7 64 professional.
> 
> It detects the HP drive and automatically installs some driver.
> This driver shows the same behaviour as the HP driver.
> 
> And then there is the IBM driver. Not sure if W7 installs a default driver for that.
> Same story.

In theory, typical SCSI/SAS tapes should use the default tape.sys
driver, IIRC.  There's nothing special with them, using standard
SCSI/SAS commands.


Corinna

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