Windows 2000 and Seagate Travan stt8000a

[The PIT]

Well everything else works bar this.
This is the error msg

"Error on Request to space backward by File marks Hardware failure"

Is anyone else using this drive in Windows 2000? I've looked at Seagates page and haven't found anything.

I've tried the drive on the motherboards own ide channels and still the same effect. tried older drivers but then the media isn't detected. The drive works fine in 98. The Tape itself is okay.

Abit bf6 Latest Bios
G400 32mb irq 9
Promise and Hauppage wintv on irq 15
Adaptec Ultra wide on 11
Soundblaster Live on 10
Mouse on 12
Com1 4
Com2 3
Floppy on 6
Lpt1 7

Could be the excuse I need to change over to Scsi.

[The PIT]

Well thats fixed. Downloaded the latest tape diagnostic this said Hi you've got a seagate blah blah on a promise controller. It let me test the tape retension it write to it. So I went back to NT's backup and it worked?
Strange but true.
Now I've got to check wether it will do a re-install.