HP C5683-03030

[Julian White]

I thought that might be the case. Do you know what I have to do to the driver to make it work. I've played with the .inf settings but have yet to to acheive any success.


Jules.

[Julian White]

How do I flash down the firmware so I can load an HP version?

Thanks,

Jules.

[Steve W]

You need the factory only code, and unfortunately, it isn't available outside of the factory. This is partly because you need a special piece of code to flash this code into the drive. If editing the driver inf file doesn't work, then the only solution would be to get a IBM supplied driver, sorry...

[Dave_157]

Julian White
Did you get this working?
I have the same tape drive

[Julian White]

I did make it work with Windows 2000 by adding the line: 'HPDAT_TAPE = "IBM ", "C5683-03030"' to the HPDAT.INF file, however I didn't work out the correct format to make the INF file work with NT, but I didn't try very hard as we upgraded the bow to 2K a few weeks later. But since I now know the format of the drive identity for the INF file you should be able to make it work with NT. Try it and see.

[GJ_1]

Julian,

I have a same tape drive and have trouble to install on Windows 2k server. Would you please let me know which driver are you used? Where I can download it? And where in the inf file are you adding the line: 'HPDAT_TAPE = "IBM ", "C5683-03030"'?

Thanks.

[Patrick Lau_1]

Hi,

I am having the exact same problem with this tape drive. Can Julian or someone else post the solution please?

Thanks,
Patrick
patrick@computerbrokers.com.sg

[Scott McIntosh_2]

As posted in Patrick's thread, the IBM 7206 Model 220 DDS-4 tape drive is for RS/6000 systems running AIX, thus no additional driver necessary.

You need to talk to IBM, but I have no expectation of them helping you in this particular instance since you are trying to use specific hardware for other than its specific purpose.

Unless anyone is willing to prove these are not Type 7206 DAT drives.

Thanks,
Scott
HP Support