Colorado 20GB TRAVAN Ext

[CA894423]

Hello,

I'm trying to use this drive under NT4 SP6a. BIOS finds the drive no problem... NT on the other hand complains it can't find the device. It is the only device on the sec IDE cntlr.

Thanks,
jim

[Tim Martin_3]

Jim-
NT4 is not plug-n-play. You need to go thru the multistep software installation using the CD-Rom that comes with the tape drive.

It will install the correct device drivers and then the Colorado Backup II software, performing whatever magic NT (workstation only) needs along the way.

I recommend HP Colorado Backup II version 9.1.

There is a download of the HP Colorado Backup II software that others have posted on this website. I'm pretty sure that this is only a subset of the CD-Rom in that it is missing the device drivers.

Tim

[CA886084]

This document should help. It also applies to your tape drive http://search.hp.com/gwuseng/query.html?la=en&qt=lpg13279&submit.y=6&submit.x=6

[CA886084]

Sorry for the bad link...

ISSUE: How to install the HP Colorado 5GBe, 8GBe, 14GBe, and 20GBe External Travan Drive drivers in Windows NT workstation.

SOLUTION: Go to the Control Panel, select, tape devices, then select the drivers tab, click add and choose standard to the left and qic157 from the right. Also, go to the CB II CD-ROM, explore it and go to the appropriate path based on the version of CBII you have.

CbII 6.0
NT\english
Run setup.exe
CBII 7.0
Misc\epatdrvr
Follow the instructions in sharshtl.doc
CBII 7.01 and CBII 8.0
Misc\epatdrvr\english\disk1
Run setup.exe

[CA894423]

Thanks Tim,

Understand no PnP on NT. The driver I installed manually. I'm pretty sure HAL finds everything reported by BIOS so long as a driver is present... Not interested in running CBII, I prefer the ntbackup so my tapes are somewhat more portable.

You probably spotted my lameness in the inital message... the unit is of course an internal drive, not external.

jim