> From: "Goslin, Paul" <pgoslin AT CINCOM DOT COM>
> Reply-To: EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>, 
> "Goslin,
> Paul" <pgoslin AT CINCOM DOT COM>
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:07:20 -0400
> To: <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Tape Drive Error: Label / Load / Unload
> 
> I've seen this occur when the drive mapping has been lost... Did you
> recently reboot the server ?
> 
> Every time this happens to me, I have to delete and re-create my jukebox
> instance....
> 
> It puts a tape into what it thinks is \\.\Tape0, but it has really put
> the tape into \\.\Tape1 (or 2,3, or 4), so it cannot verify that it
> loaded the tape into the drive it thought it did ... The only way I can
> get the tape out of the drive is to manually open the library, push the
> eject button on the drive, and then manually remove the tape and then
> place it into one of the mail-slots...

That's a good sign that the persistent binding isn't set up on your server,
or it is set up incorrectly, assuming fibre channel connections to the tape
drives.

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