HP StorageWorks DAT 40 SCSI & Windows 2000 Server Problems
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I am running an ML310 HP Server, I recently just installed an internal
HP StorageWorsk DAT 40 SCSI tape drive. The installation went well and
I did not have to use the HP media for a dirver Windows used it's
native driver.
After trying to schedule a backup in Windows Backup on many attempts
they keeping failing and I could not figure out why bare in mind that
if I ran a manual backup it would work.
I reached for my HP CD and instralled the recommended drivers for the
device, upon restart I noticed I got a prompt saying a service did not
start upon further investigation I relized my Removable Storage
services were not starting, they said they cannot detect a device, even
though the Tape Drive is installed and working fine in Windows
Explorer.
I then reverted back to my old driver and restarted and I am still
experiencing the problem How can I sort this out? How can I force
Windows 2000 to use the old driver and forget about the new one... this
doesn’t make sense I used the new HP driver which Windows said was a
better match and now nothing works when it used to work before with the
old driver, I can’t even backup at all none the less schedule
anything. (I can’t even launch the Windows backup utlity because it
cannot detect a valid tape drive even though the tape drive is there in
the device manager working fine)
Can anyone please assist?
The device is a HP StorageWorks DAT 40 SCSI.