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Windows Server Forum / Windows NT / Setup / May 2005How to see SCSI tape drive?
5/17/05 Dear Folks, I just got given an HP SureStore DAT24 SCSI internal drive to use on my Win2K system. My understanding is that it's normal for such drive to not show up as an accessible drive under Windows Explorer. Dantz Retrospect sees it just fine (it also shows up under Device manager/Tape Drive) but it would be useful to be able to access the drive directly, through Explorer. Does anyone know of a utility or app that will let me do that? Thanks! pax / Ctein ========================================== -- Ctein's Online Gallery http://www.ctein.com -- Digital Restorations http://photo-repair.com ========================================== Explorer will show files and folders when the device uses a file system such as FAT or NTFS. AFAIK Tape drives are not formatted in a file system viewable by explorer. The product would have to reformat the tape (read loose data) set up some sort of index so you can get a view of what is on the tape. Not sure if it would be worth making a product that views data on a tape drive given that explorer (or an application) will appear to hang or it will time out waiting for the tape to find a file at the end of the tape. Tape is not made to be "online" like a hard drive. Tape is meant to be a storage medium because it is so slow compared to a hard drive. Anything accessed via tape will be a bottleneck in today's systems. For online access (which is what you want) you should consider another hard drive. hth DDS W 2k MVP MCSE > 5/17/05 > Dear Folks, [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > -- Digital Restorations http://photo-repair.com > ========================================== Dear Danny, Well, I don't need random access; what I'd like is some way to be able to copy drive images to tape for offsite storage. Which means direct access by me, but it doesn't have to be via Explorer; I'd be happy with a third-party app. pax / Ctein See: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300135 hth DDS W 2k MVP MCSE > Dear Danny, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > pax / Ctein |
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