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Chaplain_Doug
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13 years ago

How to Add a Tape Drive

I have an older system running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and Symantec Backup Exec 10d.  The internal tape drive (Dell DLT-VS160) has gone bad.  I have connected an external tape drive (Dell Powe...
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    Chaplain_Doug
    13 years ago

    I received this help (which worked) in the Dell support forums:

    http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/storage/f/1216/p/19441234/20071675.aspx#20071675 

    What you need to do is to power on the 110T first and wait for it to go idle. Once the unit is at a ready state then you can boot the server. While the server is going through post you will see it scan the SCSI card and should see the drive. Once the server logs into windows then the drive should be present in device manger. Once the drive is seen by windows then you will need to run the tape install wizard for backup exec as it has a tape drive driver that will work for 2008 R2. 

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Chaplain_Doug
Level 4
13 years ago

I received this help (which worked) in the Dell support forums:

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/storage/f/1216/p/19441234/20071675.aspx#20071675 

What you need to do is to power on the 110T first and wait for it to go idle. Once the unit is at a ready state then you can boot the server. While the server is going through post you will see it scan the SCSI card and should see the drive. Once the server logs into windows then the drive should be present in device manger. Once the drive is seen by windows then you will need to run the tape install wizard for backup exec as it has a tape drive driver that will work for 2008 R2.