Using hard disks as removable devices

What is it that determines if a hard disk appears as a removable device or
not? I want to use external SATA or SAS disks with a backup program instead
of a tape drive for backups and the disks don't seem to appear under the
management of the removable media manager.

I like this question. Your HDD will never appear in RSM unless you use
http://www.firestreamer.com/fsrm/



"Scumbag Adie" <> wrote in message
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> What is it that determines if a hard disk appears as a removable device or
> not? I want to use external SATA or SAS disks with a backup program
> instead
> of a tape drive for backups and the disks don't seem to appear under the
> management of the removable media manager.

Thank you for the reply.
Obviously not too independant though!
Can you refer to an independant review of products that would do this? I
assume you cannot be the only company doing this.

Thanks

"cristalink" wrote:

> I like this question. Your HDD will never appear in RSM unless you use
> http://www.firestreamer.com/fsrm/
>
>
>
> "Scumbag Adie" <> wrote in message
> news:6D1F9D25-E11E-44FF-AC47-...
> > What is it that determines if a hard disk appears as a removable device or
> > not? I want to use external SATA or SAS disks with a backup program
> > instead
> > of a tape drive for backups and the disks don't seem to appear under the
> > management of the removable media manager.
>
>
>

Sorry, I had to be more precise. The product can expose an HDD as a virtual
tape drive. From NTBackup - the primary RSM user - point of view, there's no
big difference. NTBackup thinks it accesses tape, in fact it accesses an
HDD.
The product will not make an HDD directly appear in RSM.

>>you cannot be the only company doing this.

Apparenly, we can, if you meant a virtual tape drive in RSM.

Cheers



"Adie" <> wrote in message
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> Thank you for the reply.
> Obviously not too independant though!
> Can you refer to an independant review of products that would do this? I
> assume you cannot be the only company doing this.
>
> Thanks
>
> "cristalink" wrote:
>
>> I like this question. Your HDD will never appear in RSM unless you use
>> http://www.firestreamer.com/fsrm/
>>
>>
>>
>> "Scumbag Adie" <> wrote in message
>> news:6D1F9D25-E11E-44FF-AC47-...
>> > What is it that determines if a hard disk appears as a removable device
>> > or
>> > not? I want to use external SATA or SAS disks with a backup program
>> > instead
>> > of a tape drive for backups and the disks don't seem to appear under
>> > the
>> > management of the removable media manager.
>>
>>
>>