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Originally posted by: Goosemaster
My parents are yelling at me tellign me that I shouldn;t spend my book money on crap and I tell them I haven;t but they get mad and hand over a UPS package that arrived to me from PA....and I had not ordered anything...


So I open it...no note

Just a DLT SCSI tape with not 1..but like 5 30GB takes, a cleaning tape,but no note


WTF...
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You got 0wn3d in front of your parents.
 
Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
whats the return address say?
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Some address in PA....I am thinking of calling UPS and checking to see if they have phone # I can call...if I get nothing, I guess I'll keep it....
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
whats the return address say?
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Some address in PA....I am thinking of calling UPS and checking to see if they have phone # I can call...if I get nothing, I guess I'll keep it....
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If it has your name and address correctly, I don't see how its not yours. Have you ordered anything off EBAY lately? Maybe that was the screwup?
 
This is like last year for me when Walmart somehow decided to send me a $300 digial camera for free. I tried to send it back but I was unable to. To this day I still have the camera but barely use it.
 
So it looks like it is an HP 7980s DLT tape drive..unfortuantely hps site is hot playing noce, so could anyone help me find drivers?
Thanks
 
I'll give you a dollar for it. I can even pick it up tonight. 😉

I'm not sure those things need a driver. That stuff should be pretty standard.
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I'll give you a dollar for it. I can even pick it up tonight. 😉

I'm not sure those things need a driver. That stuff should be pretty standard.
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It gives me a yellow exclamation i nsystem manager and is requesting a driver🙁..maybe the 2003server disk has it *runs off to try*
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I'll give you a dollar for it. I can even pick it up tonight. 😉

I'm not sure those things need a driver. That stuff should be pretty standard.
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It gives me a yellow exclamation i nsystem manager and is requesting a driver🙁..maybe the 2003server disk has it *runs off to try*
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I'm having trouble finding anything Windows related for it...
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
BTW, noc, do you mind explaining why this is only worth one of your ficticious monkey dolalrs?
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It's probably worth more to someone else, but it's all I was offering you tonight. 😛
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I'll give you a dollar for it. I can even pick it up tonight. 😉

I'm not sure those things need a driver. That stuff should be pretty standard.
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It gives me a yellow exclamation i nsystem manager and is requesting a driver🙁..maybe the 2003server disk has it *runs off to try*
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I'm having trouble finding anything Windows related for it...
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Ya think😛

I think it is from the old HP-nix days......ie no windows support🙁 Probably why someone random person mailed it to me🙁

I believe this thing is opsolete according to my link because it is "reel to reel"..got any info vs the new stuff? These tapes only seem to have one massive cog.
 
Originally posted by: jagec
The honest thing to do would be to find out who sent it to you, contact them, and send it back...

If they don't want it/don't care, it's yours.
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Now who in the world would do that :evil:
 
well, lt came with a disk that has some drivers that aren;t hp and by readign the supported formates of the tape drive, it might be either a BENCHMARK, COMPAQ, or QUANTUM drive...any guesses as to qhich driver might work?
 
It also came with what I thought was a scsi card but seems to be called a "medium changer" ...


Maybe its not liking the Adapatec ultra160 its conencted to perhaps?
 
I once sent to motherboards to the wrong person, they were going to buy them, then back out. They forgot about it and were 😕 when a big box showed up with two motherboards in it.. luckily I figured it out the day that the box arrived (DC showed the wrong address) and I was able to get the guy to send them along to the actual buyer just for shipping cost. Whew.

BTW, are they travan-type tapes?
 
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