On Oct 21 17:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 21 10:19, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: > > Also, this is Windows 2008 R2. I'm told that 2008 R2 and Win 7 share the > > same code base. Is 2008 R2 an officially supported platform for 1.7? > > It's supposed to be, though right at the moment I haven't installed > a 2K8 R2 test system, just a W7 x64 system. I'll check that again > in the next couple of days, but the tape ID you have on your system is > not ok. I'd suggest to deinstall the driver, switch off the machine > and reboot. Maybe the next time the tape drive gets a more sensible > ID. If it sticks to this weird ID, I'd file an SRQ at Microsoft.
I installed a 2K8 R2 and attached a tape drive. It got the tape ID 0, as expected. Something certainly isn't ok on your machine. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
