What community for Windows 2008 hardware questions?

[Guest tl]

Hi

 

What community should I use for problems I'm having adding tape device

drivers on a Windows 2008 x64 system?

 

Thanks!

tl

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: What community for Windows 2008 hardware questions?

 

tl <tl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Hi

>

> What community should I use for problems I'm having adding tape device

> drivers on a Windows 2008 x64 system?

>

> Thanks!

> tl

 

I'd try microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general, but crosspost here for fun.

And note that these are newsgroups, not web forums (fora?)...you'll have a

much better experience with them if you don't use the web interface.

 

Try a news client, such as Forte Agent, Thunderbird, or even Outlook

Express, rather than the pretty clunky web interface to the newsgroups. It's

a lot easier to do nearly everything that way. You can mark messages to be

watched, filter the views so you can see replies to your posts easily, and

search.

 

The Microsoft public news server is msnews.microsoft.com and you can

subscribe to as many groups as you like; no authentication is required.

 

The following is from a post by MVP Malke ...

 

-------------------------------------------------------

Here's information on Usenet and using a newsreader:

 

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page3.html#12-09-02 - a brief

explanation of newsgroups

http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlo...ssnewreader.htm

http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...wto/default.asp

- Set Up Newsreader

 

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups

microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is

working properly

http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm - how to munge email address

http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting vs.

crossposting

 

Some newsreaders for Windows

http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php - for Forte

http://www.mozilla.org (Thunderbird does newsgroups)

http://gravity.tbates.org/

 

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[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: What community for Windows 2008 hardware questions?

 

Hello tl,

 

What error do you get? Are the drivers for 64bit systems from the tape device

vendor?

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers

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** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups

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> Hi

>

> What community should I use for problems I'm having adding tape device

> drivers on a Windows 2008 x64 system?

>

> Thanks!

> tl

[Guest tl]

Re: What community for Windows 2008 hardware questions?

 

Hi Meinolf

 

I have a Windows 2008 x64 system, and I'm trying to use a Sony SDZ-120 SAIT

tape drive. I've downloaded the correct driver

(http://sony.storagesupport.com/node/464). But when I try to install the

driver in Device Manager, I get the error, "Windows cannot load the device

driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupt or missing (Code 39)".

 

I asked Sony technical support about this, and they said it was a problem in

the Registry. I Google'd 'code 39', and found several KBs on how to fix a

'code 39' problem with DVD/CD drives. But I can't find anything about 'code

39' and tape drives. The instructions in the KBs for 'code 39' and DVD/CD

drives don't seem to map to what I see with a tape drive.

 

Help, please!

 

Thanks

tl

 

"Meinolf Weber" wrote:

> Hello tl,

>

> What error do you get? Are the drivers for 64bit systems from the tape device

> vendor?

>

> Best regards

>

> Meinolf Weber

> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers

> no rights.

> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups

> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

>

>

> > Hi

> >

> > What community should I use for problems I'm having adding tape device

> > drivers on a Windows 2008 x64 system?

> >

> > Thanks!

> > tl

>

>

>