zqxthree Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 I have a DAT (DDS-1) SCSI tape drive. It's the IBM version of the HP 35480A. HP 35480A is supported but the IBM version is not recognized. System is Windows XP Professional. Any ideas what to patch to make this work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMinNJ Posted May 24, 2005 Report Share Posted May 24, 2005 Are there any DIP switches on the drive? I recall my Digital 4mm drive had a switch that would make it present itself or SCSI string/ID as a Python 4mm drive or DEC TZ ?? depending on whether the switch was set or not? Just a thought. RMinNJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted May 25, 2005 Report Share Posted May 25, 2005 Hi Try disabling the device in WIndows device manager. Retrospect has its own drivers. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zqxthree Posted May 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2005 Tried disabling the device in Windows. Also tried uninstalling Veritas software. Neither helped. Pursuing the theory that the drive's ID string is not in the Retrospect table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMinNJ Posted May 26, 2005 Report Share Posted May 26, 2005 I had gotten my 4mm to work with XP. The drive does need to be disabled in device manager as Retrospect used the NT passthrough driver. That said, the fact that you had to or could disable it in device manager means XP saw the drive connected. I assume when the machine boots the scsi bios displays that it found a tape drive on SCSI ID X. Again, somehow, Retropect just saw my 4mm..it displayed itself at a Python DDS something.. I believe it is a DDS2 drive not a DDS1. FWIW: If you do get it work, and I have lots of 4mm tapes around also, I don't think you'll be happy with the performance. First, mine wrote at 20 to 30 MB/min...probably much worst as I heard it constantly stopping amd starting. Secondly, I told it when I erased the tape that is was an 8GB DDS2.. It fit exactly 3.9GB on a tape, it promped me for a second tape, but I had gone to bed by then. See my post "XP and old scsi drives". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zqxthree Posted June 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 Retrospect support was able to diagnose the problem as a driver limitation and provide a temporary fix that correctly recognized the drive. They were very helpful and professional. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimSaw Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 Hey, I've got the same problem as you and I REALLY need to copy the content of some DDS-1 tapes to my hard disk. Could you please tell me what they told you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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