I look for a driver for a hp DAT Recorder C1536-00100. I  canīt find
it on the hp website. I use Windows 95. Is there anyone who can help
me

Bettina Lohmann

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Bettina Lohmann wrote:

> I look for a driver for a hp DAT Recorder C1536-00100. I  canīt find
> it on the hp website. I use Windows 95. Is there anyone who can help
> me
>
> Bettina Lohmann

Short answer: it doesn't exist.

Trying to remember..hmm..
Longer answer: the DAT driver is really embedded/tied to your choice of
(typically purchased) backup software.

There was some kind of conspiracy (my opinion) between MS and Veritas: I
believe that you may enable some utilities section in the OS something..the
built in backup application inside Win 95, and it should on install enable
the driver since it detects the DAT drive and run it..if DAT drives where
supported. Ie: you need to make sure that the drive is directly supported
by Win95 for this "game" to work. It was some kind of "lite" Veritas
Desktop Backup app. The help system (F1) inside WIn95 should fil in any
details, "supported drives" and what not.  It was really just an enabler
for Veritas to sell their version. (= My opinion again..)
HP of course used to OEM and bundle this Veritas software too way back
when....."Colorado Backup II".  They can't provide the software since it's
*not* free software - it was really retail licensed stuff..in the box.

See what you find inside Win95 and post again. (It may have been that only
some "Travan" tape drives were supported..can't remember.)

jk

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> There was some kind of conspiracy (my opinion) between MS and Veritas: I

Software RAID provided with w2k and later is a limited version of Veritas VX
IO.

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kalev- wrote:
> Bettina Lohmann wrote:
> 
>
> Short answer: it doesn't exist.
>
> Trying to remember..hmm..
> Longer answer: the DAT driver is really embedded/tied to your choice
> of (typically purchased) backup software.
>
> There was some kind of conspiracy (my opinion) between MS and
> Veritas: I believe that you may enable some utilities section in the
> OS something..the built in backup application inside Win 95, and it
> should on install enable the driver since it detects the DAT drive
> and run it..if DAT drives where supported. Ie: you need to make sure
> that the drive is directly supported by Win95 for this "game" to
> work. It was some kind of "lite" Veritas Desktop Backup app. The help
> system (F1) inside WIn95 should fil in any details, "supported
> drives" and what not.  It was really just an enabler for Veritas to
> sell their version. (= My opinion again..)
> HP of course used to OEM and bundle this Veritas software too way back
> when....."Colorado Backup II".  They can't provide the software since
> it's *not* free software - it was really retail licensed stuff..in
> the box.
>
as it happens I downloaded a version of Colorado Backup II to a win98
computer last week for a Travan drive. From HP's website. It's there
somewhere - version 8.

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Bettina Lohmann <XXXXofspammer@gmx.de> writes:
> I look for a driver for a hp DAT Recorder C1536-00100. I  canīt find
> it on the hp website. I use Windows 95. Is there anyone who can help
> me

It's a standard SCSI tape drive.  I used to use it with a version of
GNU Tar that someone hacked up to run on MSDOS, that should work under W95.

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