@OverFlow
Thanks for the info about how Device Manager can act strange. By creating a plugin to load the Quantum drivers I've managed to get the tape drive recognized by UBCD4win (see below).
I still had to load up device manager and "Update Drivers" and the system found the correct ones in the [system32] directory and loads them successfully. The next thing I plan to look into is how to get the drivers to automatically apply themselves (I'll post back here once I figure it out).
@All
HOW TO GET A QUANTUM SDLT 600 TAPE DRIVE TO WORK IN UBCD4Win
To have UBCD4Win to recognize a tape drive, both the driver for the tape drive and a plugin .inf file is required. (Why a plugin and not as a driver? The SDLT 600 drivers lack an txtsetup.oem file thus the driver procedure didn't work, at least on my attempts).
In order to get the plugin to work create a folder inside of plugin directory (such as plugin/quan_sdlt600/) and place the below code into quan_sdlt600.inf] and place it in the [quan_sdlt600] directory. Also a copy of the newest drivers are required (I used v4.3.33.0) inside of the [quan_sdlt600] directory.
All in all what it should look like at the end of the day:
plugin/
- quan_sdlt600/
+ quan_sdlt600.inf (the code below place in here)
+ XlateX32.sys (from the downloaded driver)
+ QDLTx32.sys (ditto)
+ QntmDlt.inf (ditto)
; PE Builder v3 plug-in INF file
; http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
; Written by T. Tucker 24 July 2008
;
; Quantum SDLT 600 Tape Drive Support
; Save this to [quan_sdlt600.inf] to work correctly
;
[Version]
Signature= "$Windows NT$"
[PEBuilder]
Name="Tape: Quantum SDLT 600"
Enable=1
Help=\quan_sdlt600.htm
[SourceDisksFiles]
; just copy the following files from you driver disk to this folder
; The driver .sys file must goto the system32\drivers folder
XlateX32.sys=4,,1
QDLTx32.sys=4,,1
; The driver .inf file must goto the inf folder
QntmDlt.inf=20,,1
And if you want a help file (I haven't added a line to the .inf file to include this when you hit help when checking plugins, but I plan to do so). Save the following code to [quan_sdlt600.htm] for a better view.
EDIT: Added help line, enjoy.
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<i>PE Builder v3 plugin</i>
<hr>
<h1>Tape: Quantum SDLT 600 Driver</h1>
<br>
Before you can use this plugin you must download a file from the internet
and copy it to the plugin directory.<br>
<br>
Download the Quantum SDLT 600 Driver from
the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.quantum.com"> Driver page</a>.<br>
The current release at this time is <tt>4.3.33.0</tt>, but you should download the latest version...<br>
<br>
Copy the following files into
the <tt>plugin\quan_sdlt600</tt> directory:<br>
<tt>XlateX32.sys, QDLTx32.sys, QntmDlt.inf</tt><br>
<br>
<hr>
<i>PE Builder
Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Bart Lagerweij. All rights reserved.</i><br>
</body>
</html>
Last edited by Nabeshin (2008-07-25 06:11:15)
we dont need it to be pretty, just functional