On Aug 19 18:40, bartels wrote: > On 08/19/2013 06:31 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > > > >First of all, it's not clear to me whether it is a Microsoft problem > >or a device driver problem. I would see what's known about the behavior > >of the devices and their drivers with the specific Windows version you > >have. Of course it could be that other tools don't need to ask those > >same questions, for some reason, so that they end up working fine .. > > Good thinking. > > Running W7 64 professional. > > It detects the HP drive and automatically installs some driver. > This driver shows the same behaviour as the HP driver. > > And then there is the IBM driver. Not sure if W7 installs a default driver > for that. > Same story.
In theory, typical SCSI/SAS tapes should use the default tape.sys driver, IIRC. There's nothing special with them, using standard SCSI/SAS commands. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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