Andy is correct. If you would like to use adsmscsi to claim the tape drive,
you will have to stop the NT driver that claims your tape drive. Since the
drive has been claimed by the Window driver and adsmscsi does not find
other device it can claim, adsmscsi will not start and you will get the
message "The system cannot find the device specified.". You saw the device
name \\.\tape0, that is a good indication that the drive has been claimed
by the NT driver.

Regards

Hunny Kershaw
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Tivoli Storage Manager - Device Driver Development
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Did you try shutting down the Windows driver before starting the ADSMSCSI
driver?

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
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Hello,
i have to "reactivate" an old 3.1 installation which used a tape library
with 6 cartridges. We do not have the old tape library anymore so i am
currently trying to get an ordenary HP 1537A 4mm DAT to work. The Windows
driver works fine and i can use the Windows backup program to backup and
restore data to the tape but the ADSM SCSI just does not want to start.
Is does not find the specific drive......
It is configured under Windows and the ADSM Wizard does find it, but the
ADSM SCSI does not start. In the devconfig.out it says GENLIB1 and
GENERIC_TAPE and \\.\tape0
Any suggestions or help is higly appreciated
Kind regards
O. Oexmann