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Need help setting up Compaq TL891 mini library
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| pktrash@yahoo.com 2007-06-16, 1:16 am |
| I run a small business and was tempted to automate my backups and
bought a used Compaq TL891 minilibrary from ebay. I thought it would
be as easy to plug in as my earlier Compaq 15/30 GB tape drive. Boy...
was I mistaken.
In my excitment (and overconfidence) I bought the library without the
drivers and now, I am stuck. I have tried looking for drivers,
downloaded what I found but have not had any luck.
I run Windows XP Pro. and have an Adpaptec AHA 2950UW scsi card.
Can some guru please help me get this thing working?
Thanx...
Pete
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| I used one of these on Windows 2003 with Backup Exec. The drivers
were either the Backup Exec drivers or the generic windows provided
"medium changer" driver.
On bootup does the Adaptec display a list of attached devices and does
that list include the library robot and drive or drives in the
library? If not then you need to fix that first. CTRL-A to go into
the adaptec BIOS and poke around in there. I haven't done that in a
while so I don't remember the exact screens.
If the Adaptec sees it you could try finding some backup software that
works on XP and download a trial to see if you can get the drivers out
of that. It may be that the Windows XP backup utility is just not
going to work with a robot, I'm not sure.
On Jun 15, 8:24 pm, pktr...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I run a small business and was tempted to automate my backups and
> bought a used Compaq TL891 minilibrary from ebay. I thought it would
> be as easy to plug in as my earlier Compaq 15/30 GB tape drive. Boy...
> was I mistaken.
>
> In my excitment (and overconfidence) I bought the library without the
> drivers and now, I am stuck. I have tried looking for drivers,
> downloaded what I found but have not had any luck.
>
> I run Windows XP Pro. and have an Adpaptec AHA 2950UW scsi card.
>
> Can some guru please help me get this thing working?
>
> Thanx...
> Pete
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