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Subject: Re: Quantum LTO 4 tape drive and Cygwin 1.7?
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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

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