>Kevin:
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>As I understand tape drives, it takes special software to read to and write from a tape drive. I suspect that you'll need to execute the tape software and it already is configured for the correct device.
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>HTH
>Mike

Ours had a driver for it and it automagically become the next available drive letter. You could just copy files to/from it, but it was S..L..O..W..! A price that I guess you had to pay for a sequential access device. You did have to "pre-allocate" how many files you were going to write to it, but they had a utility for that. It was a unique way of doing things for a tape drive. You're correct that most tape drives I'd seen before (or since!) require that you use their software for reading/writing to it. Since ZIP & JAZ came out, we've avoided tapes like the plague!