Hello,
I must admit I do not know if Windows in some cases skips slots, but just want to confirm:
Hot plugable tape drives do exist for this Windows market, e.g. ours ;-)
OnStream Echo USB30 (15GB native USB1.1 interface)
OnStream ADR2.60usb2 (30GB native USB2 interface)
Third parties have also assembled IEEE1394 tape drives with OnStream (IDE drives with bridge board in external enclosures).
And I know that our competition also offers USB and IEEE1394.
With kind regards,
Ron Manders
SWQA Manager OnStream Data.
www.onstreamdata.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Duhem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 9:38 AM
> To: Pat LaVarre
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re[2]: [t13] CDB's without drive letters in Win 2K/XP
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>
> Pat,
>
> PL> Courtesy a guru I know in Nacogdoches, Texas, now we
> PL> know the Win 2K/XP tape analogue of the \\.\A: \\.\B: of
> PL> disks & cd-roms ... is \\.\TAPE0 \\.\TAPE1 ...
>
> As a matter of fact, you should never rely on the fact that the series
> begins at 0 and continues without empty slots. All new hot-pluggable
> hardware devices (I don't know whether such tape drives exist, but it
> is definitively the case for physicaldisk0, etc.) can occupy a slot
> and, when removed, leave the slot empty.
>
> Looping on tapex from 0 to 9 would be a good safety measure. In my
> code, where I have to do that for physical drives, I even go up to 26
> (== Z:), albeit I never personally saw a physicaldrive10 or more.
>
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>
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Pierre Duhem
> Logiciels & Services Duhem, Paris (France)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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