First post, by mrfusion92
Hello everyone, I got at work from a dismissed IBM AS/400 a Tandberg SLR5 tape drive.
Inside there was an Imation SLR5-8GB tape.
I bought an Adaptec SCSI card, put everything inside my PIII machine and installed them on Win98. I've installed also Veritas Backup Exec Desktop and here the issue begins.
The tape drive is correctly discovered, I can select it but every operation I try gives me the error that "this media cannot be used with the device".
But like the tape has SLR5 written on it, and it's the size that the drive can handle (4gb or 8 gb compressed), so I guess that the problem is because the tape is initialized for the as/400 system.
Inside Veritas there are "initialize" and "erase" options but that error still pop-ups.
Are there some utilities to forcefully "re-init" the tape for Windows systems? Or maybe the tape is gone bad? Based on what's written on the label, last time it was used was 10 years ago.
EDIT: Forgot to say, mechanically seems everything in order. The tape spins and also while Veritas try to use it, it moves.
