onstream d30 tape backup

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am running this unit on a dell poweredge server, 700mghz,256 MB RAM-the unit is on the IDE channel,secondary master-the problem is I am having difficulty in tracking down the w2k drivers...the onstream site seems to be down every time i try to access it,of course,and ms talks all around the subject but never seems to hit on it directly-offers advice on what to do when the tapes(adr) are not recognized,stuff like that.
what i want and need are the appropriate drivers-current-so i can get this puppy up and running.
the users are starting to get a little p-o'ed at me because i am rebooting the server often-trying various combinations of drivers.
this is a vital piece in the network,as i am backing up mission critical data from the database-it changes every day.
please don't tell me to get another unit or to replace it with a or b or whatever-this is a non-profit org and there simply is no money available to spend on hardware-it took me three years to talk them into the server.
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well,i found some drivers that were from the Onstream site. went into CMOS and put the onstream tape drive as master primary,the cdrom as master seccondary (using 2 scsi drives)(these setting were not enabled)...booted up windows and wow! it found the onstream...cool. loaded the echo software and rebooted
blue screen of death.
not able to boot normally/not able to boot into safe mode/administrator password not recognized in rconsole/tried the automatic-fast option and ...it was able to access the disk and also able to access the folders...but recovery failed-blue screen again...i work as a computer tech,so i took it into the shop and left it there. it has become tomorrows problem.
what do you think happened-how did kernal.exe become corrupted?
 
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