X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AE060E8.7080501@RevolutionONE.com> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:40:56 -0500 From: "Jeffrey C. Smith" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Quantum LTO 4 tape drive and Cygwin 1.7? References: <4ADE1C79.1090701@RevolutionONE.com> <20091021105914.GG16678@calimero.vinschen.de> <4ADF2690.9080407@RevolutionONE.com> <20091021155125.GJ16678@calimero.vinschen.de> <20091022090602.GM16678@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20091022090602.GM16678@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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. As you suggested, I removed the driver, updated the firmware, rebooted, and reloaded the driver - no change. Something is definitely wrong with the Win2K box. I've logged a bug with Quantum. We'll see what they say. Thanks much for your help... Jeff -- 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