Vista handles tape-drives as fixed disks. how do I solve?

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I have a DLT7000/DLT8000 connected to an adaptec 29160 card.
After I installed Vista Business64, the tape drive is identified as a
hard-disk, obviously it does not work, at the same time the hard-drives
connected to the same scsi-card is not accessible.

Hard-drives and Tape-drives is correctly identified in BIOS.

Its said that Vista has built in support for the Adaptec 29160 card.

Anyone that has a viable solution on this problem.
 
Tomas Larsson said:
I have a DLT7000/DLT8000 connected to an adaptec 29160 card.
After I installed Vista Business64, the tape drive is identified as a
hard-disk, obviously it does not work, at the same time the hard-drives
connected to the same scsi-card is not accessible.

Hard-drives and Tape-drives is correctly identified in BIOS.

Its said that Vista has built in support for the Adaptec 29160 card.

Anyone that has a viable solution on this problem.
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It appears that Quantum hasn't released a driver for Vista.

http://www.quantum.com/ServiceandSu...mentationDownloads/DLT8000/Index.aspx#Drivers

Without a driver it's unlikely you'll get it to work.
 
Well, driver As far as I know is normally supplied byt the software using it,
such as veritas backup etc.
But the thing is that it is recognized as a Hard drive, I don't even get a
question to load a driver.
 
Well, the problem is that vista does not even giv me the choice of selecting
a driver, but always thinks it's a hard-drive regardless what i do.
Plus the fact that driver normaly are supplied by sw such as veritas backup
etc.
 
After some 10 deletes and scans for hardware changes i briefly managed to get
BOTH the hard-drive and the tape-drive recognized correctly, but after a few
seconds they were deleted by the system and replaced with the nonworking
devices again.

BTW, The DLT should be compatible with VISTA and there should be drivers in
vista as well.
 
After some 10 deletes and scans for hardware changes i briefly managed to get
BOTH the hard-drive and the tape-drive recognized correctly, but after a few
seconds they were deleted by the system and replaced with the nonworking
devices again.

BTW, The DLT should be compatible with VISTA and there should be drivers in
vista as well.
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Vista's drivers might be for the "board" but not the "drive".
 
Kerry Brown said:
I don't see it listed here as Vista certified or works with Vista

http://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/Default.aspx

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Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/




http://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL/Pr...=&f=&pn=QUANTUM DLTtape DLT8000 drive&oid=616
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Basically the same drive, regardless, VISTA has the driver "dlttape.sys" ,
the problem is that VISTA sometimes doesn't recognize the drive, same applies
to the harddrive, and harddrives doen't have any special drivers and should
be recognized.
 
Further in my investigation.
If I remove the hard-drive from the bus, no changes, tape-drive some-times
recognized, but removed or inaccessible, or recognized as a hard drive.
obviously no changes.

If I remove the Tape-drive from the Bus, the hard-drive is still not
accessible, most of the times not recognized properly.

This makes me to start think that there is an error in the actual
adpu160m.sys driver.

I guess I have to download a linux live-cd and see if things is working on
that one.
 
Tomas Larsson said:
Basically the same drive, regardless, VISTA has the driver "dlttape.sys" ,
the problem is that VISTA sometimes doesn't recognize the drive, same
applies
to the harddrive, and harddrives doen't have any special drivers and
should
be recognized.
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That's weird. I couldn't find that in the database. Did you notice the
footnote for Vista: "Certain device manufacturer variations of this device
may not be compatible. For more information, go to the device manufacturer's
website or contact your retailer."
 
Yeah, i saw that little note.
so far I've found out that the hard-drive is accessible and works from an
ubuntu llive-cd, so there shouldn't be any HW-problems. Whitch leads me to
belaive that there is a problem in Vista, either with the scsi-driver itself
(adpu160m.sys) or some other stuff in the device managment, since i cant
under no circumstanses do anything with the disk in vista (cant even initiate
the disk or delete a partition).
When that is solved I guess that the tapedrive-problem is solved as well.
 
Have done some testing from an Ubuntu live-cd.
Diskdrive and tape is working without any problem.

Formated the diskdrive to FAT32, still cant be seen in Vista.
Vista still claims that the drive needs to be initiated and formated. And
that doesn't work.
 
Tomas Larsson said:
I have a DLT7000/DLT8000 connected to an adaptec 29160 card.
After I installed Vista Business64, the tape drive is identified as a
hard-disk, obviously it does not work, at the same time the hard-drives
connected to the same scsi-card is not accessible.

Hard-drives and Tape-drives is correctly identified in BIOS.

Its said that Vista has built in support for the Adaptec 29160 card.

Anyone that has a viable solution on this problem.
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Got a call from MS-Support today about this.

He told me that I'm not alone with this problem, and MS knew about this for
a quit long time, they shipped a broken driver for the Adaptek 29160-card on
the VISTA DVD, he also told me that they have no intention to fix this
problem, since MS don't do Hardware.

Things that make me somewhat angry is that there is no mention in the HCL
nor the KB about this fact that the driver adpu160.sys currently shipped on
the Vista DVD is non-working.

So, where am I now??
 
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