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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

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