In my experience if I tried to "Inventory" a bunch of unlabeled tapes the drive 
would be disabled after multiple failures to read a label.  However, if I used 
"Reset" to make NetWorker aware of the unlabeled tapes in our library (which 
keeps its own inventory) then I could "Label" them without causing the drive to 
be disabled because each successful label operation reset the consecutive 
errors counter so there was only one error operation for each successful 
operation.

Dave Werth
Garmin AT, Inc.
Salem, Oregon
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
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Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 6:37 AM
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Subject: [Networker] Networker Hangs Labelling Tape

"Each week when I fill the jukebox, I have to label the new tapes with the 
backup date."

This reminds me about a very old issue which might still exist:
If NW labels a bunch of new (never used) tapes, it will actually run in a 
problem after the 20th tape on the same drive - this is due to the 'Max. 
consecutive errors' value for a device. This issue has probably never been 
addressed. You may want to check Auto Media Management (for the jukebox, not 
for the device). In this case, NW will label media when it is needed but never 
consecutively. This will avoid the problem - if it still exists.

Besides that, you can still use internal utilities like tape_exer(cise) to 
check a device individually.

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