Hello All:

We recently started to run into a problem where a backup will
kickoff, and the job will try to mount all the scratch tapes in a
robot; tries one, then goes to the next, etc, etc. (happening to
both STK9710 and L700/DLT 7000 Drives). The tape does not get
assigned but does get moved to the pool defined by the class. The
All Log Entries reports that the tape is either, misplaced, write
protected or unmountable. The only way to resolve issue is to
turn the robot off and on and reinventory. When the job is kicked
off again, it writes to one of the tapes that was just tagged as
"unmountable".

We see this in our NBU 3.2 and NBU 3.4 DataCenter environments.
(HP-UX 11.00)

Anybody seen this before?

Thanks.

Charlie Somogyi
BMS
Princeton, NJ
609-818-3589