Requirements for Colorado Travan 8GB, internal, tape drive under Windows XP.

[Alwyn F. Jones]

G'day all.

I'm trying to read some ancient (1998) archive tapes.  I'm having intermittent problems with HP Colorado Backup II just hanging, usually at the start of operations on a tape.  I can't kill the task (why doesn't it appear under Applications in the Task Manager?) nor can I do a normal shutdown.  I have to power off the computer.

The following link describes a situation which is either mine or very much like mine:
                 http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=63937&prodNameId=12507&swEnvOID=24&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=co168en

My question is: Is it OK to download and install this driver (described as a Windows NT driver) under Windows XP?

Thanks,  . . .  Alwyn F-J

PS  I see there's also a reference at the HP site  to a firmware upgrade, which may be relevant (see http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=63937&prodNameId=12507&swEnvOID=24&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=co110en).  I'll check that out too.