HP Tape Drive Installation

[Guest]

I have a desktop running Vista Ultimate and need to connect an HP Surestore
DAT40e SCSI tape drive via LVD connection. I am having a devil of a time
doing so. I cannot find any drivers and cannot find the native Microsoft
Drivers for a manual installation. There are XP Pro drivers from HP but they
will not install properly.

Can someone point me inthe right direction? I need the tape drive to read
archived data with some 3D software in addition to running NovaStor Backup
for my system.

Thank you.

Sal

 

[Mike Brannigan]

I have a desktop running Vista Ultimate and need to connect an HP Surestore
DAT40e SCSI tape drive via LVD connection. I am having a devil of a time
doing so. I cannot find any drivers and cannot find the native Microsoft
Drivers for a manual installation. There are XP Pro drivers from HP but
they
will not install properly.

Can someone point me inthe right direction? I need the tape drive to read
archived data with some 3D software in addition to running NovaStor Backup
for my system.

Thank you.

Sal

If HP do not provide appropriate drivers for your device then you have an
issue.
Did you look at
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...esId=441546&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=2093

 

[Guest]

Yes, I looked at thsi site and the Tape Library softare seems to be a
diagnostic tool. It would install, but I could not find any drivers. I then
looked at the same web site and found drivers for every other Windows
operating system. I tried those drivers, but to no avail. I tried running
the driver installer as an XP program in Vista and still no luck.

My tape driver is four or five years old so and has been replaced by HP
toteh StorageWOrks DAT40e. That device also does not have Vista drivers.

I may have to buy a Quantum drive which has Vista support, but I was hoping
to do with what I have.

Another thought is a Firewire/SCSI converter.

Sal

 

[Richard G. Harper]

You're probably going to have some trouble finding Vista drivers from HP;
they consider tape drives to be business/enterprise/server class hardware
and don't really support "Consumer" OSes. I assume the SCSI host adapter is
working correctly and has Vista drivers?

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