> I've loaded (without mount it because it isn't in the media database and I 
> can't do it) a tape into a remote drive in a storage node using the command:
> 
> C:\>nsrjb -v -l -n -f rd=storagenode:\\.\Tape1 -S 51
> setting verbosity level to `1'
> Info: Loading volume `HIS101' from slot `51' into device 
> `rd=storagenode:\\.\Tape1'.
> 
> The tape is loaded into the drive (I can see it physically and in the 
> Networker Administration console) but when I try to scan it, I get the 
> following error:
> 
> C:>scanner -v -b "LCFIB Historicos" -i -p -z rd=storagenode:\\.\Tape1
> 8909:scanner: using 'rd=storagenode:\\.\Tape1' as the device name
> 39077:scanner: error, read open error: No media in drive.


As Theirry said, try the scanner from the storage node.

Even before using scanner, use "mt -f \\.\Tape1 status" to verify that there is 
really a tape in the drive.  If not, then you could have a drive ordering issue.

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