Onstream ADR tape with Windows 2000 professional
This document describes how to use an OnStream DI30 tape drive with Red Hat Linux and several free backup utilities. It is intended for a anyone planning to use an OnStream DI-30 tape drive, or anyone trying to backup Linux, especially Red Hat. Most especially, it's intended for anyone trying to do both! Osst is a Linux tape driver for the OnStream SC-30/SC-50 and (via the SCSI layer adapters ide-scsi, usb-storage and sbp2) the IDE-30, USB-30 and FW-30 tape devices. A kernel driver has been created to provide an st-compatible interface to the. Have many different Onstream drives in use. Can't seem to get my 2 ADR2.60 IDE drives to recognize tapes. They both have latest firmware. Drives are seen by motherboard bios OK, drivers load properly in OS (XP-Pro & W2K Server). Using Arcservit 2000 with SP4 & patches as needed for other drives to work, just won't acknowledge tapes in drive. For example, OnStream tape drive with OSST driver works well with both Linux and Bacula’s free tape backup software, and some of them work with Windows, as well. Any modern tape drive (2010 and later) should work with Bacula’s tape drive backup software via the basic Bacula Device specification from bacula-sd.conf file.
Drivers Onstream Data Tape Drives
Onstream ADR tape with Windows 2000 professional
Drivers Onstream Data Tape Drivers
I read a review that seemed to say that the Tapeware software included would back up drives mapped with Microsoft Networking, but alas! When I tried it I found that it would only back up local drives, unless you pay $199 more for an upgrade.
So I looked for options, and found that it's supposed to work with networked drives if you use Microsoft's Backup from Windows 2000 with a driver downloaded from Onstream.
Trying that, I discovered that Windows 2000 doesn't recognize ADR tapes, thinking they're Travan or MiniQIC instead. I found documentation for that bug, that said I needed Service Pack 2 for Win2000. So I downloaded and installed that.
But Windows 2000 still doesn't recognize ADR tapes, offering only Travan and MiniQIC options from Backup.
What am I missing???? Help!