Tape Drive error

[DRIFT-O-MATIC]

I finally got win98 installed on my puter. I was given
this old HP Colorado T3000 tape drive, so I decided to
install it in the machine, since there was an open bay
for it. I don't have the software or drivers for it, so I
went to HP website and downloaded it...or I think that's
what it was. The description was: "HP Colorado Backup
Cataloger Module for Windows 95. When I went to open the
folder, this error came up: "A required .dll file,
DBDAO3.DLL, was not found". What does this mean, and what
should I do? Windows doesn't even recognize the drive in
the device manager, and never detected it when I booted.

[SFB - KB3MM]

Sounds like that software is simply for maintaining a catalog of what files
are on the tapes.

"DRIFT-O-MATIC" > wrote in message
...
> I finally got win98 installed on my puter. I was given
> this old HP Colorado T3000 tape drive, so I decided to
> install it in the machine, since there was an open bay
> for it. I don't have the software or drivers for it, so I
> went to HP website and downloaded it...or I think that's
> what it was. The description was: "HP Colorado Backup
> Cataloger Module for Windows 95. When I went to open the
> folder, this error came up: "A required .dll file,
> DBDAO3.DLL, was not found". What does this mean, and what
> should I do? Windows doesn't even recognize the drive in
> the device manager, and never detected it when I booted.
>

[DRIFT-O-MATIC]

>-----Original Message-----
>Sounds like that software is simply for maintaining a
catalog of what files
>are on the tapes.

You're probably right. The website had no other
downloads for this tape drive. Do you know of any other
way I can find the software and drivers for it?

[SFB - KB3MM]

Not really. That is pretty (very) old stuff.

Average users moved to CD-RW drives quite a while ago; the drives are really
cheap.



"DRIFT-O-MATIC" > wrote in message
...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Sounds like that software is simply for maintaining a
> catalog of what files
> >are on the tapes.
>
> You're probably right. The website had no other
> downloads for this tape drive. Do you know of any other
> way I can find the software and drivers for it?

[DRIFT-O-MATIC]

OK, I found out why it won't work. The minimum
requirement is Windows NT. I'm running 98. Oh, well.