Hi,

Looking for some idea's as to the cause of a very frustrating issue! :)

We recently built a new backup server consisting of as follows..

sun v440
l25 robot / 2 x lto2 drives
netbackup 5.1
qlogic hba

# sgscan
/dev/sg/c0t0l0: Changer: "M4 DATA MagFile"
/dev/sg/c0t1l0: Tape (/dev/rmt/0): "HP      Ultrium 2-SCSI" 
/dev/sg/c0t2l0: Tape (/dev/rmt/1): "HP      Ultrium 2-SCSI" 

vmoprcmd output..

Drv Type   Control  User      Label  RecMID  ExtMID  Ready   Wr.Enbl.  ReqId
  0 hcart2   TLD                -                     No       -        -   
  1 hcart2   TLD                -                     No       -        -   

Following the install and configuration netbackup see's the robot and
the drives as I would expect no problems.  The barcode rules work fine
and the tapes are moved to the correct volume pools.

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UNXFS pool

A865L1  HCART    TLD      0       1      -       -     -        AVAILABLE

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The problem I'm having is although the tapes are clearly available I
continually get "status (96) - unable to allocate newmedia for backup,
storage unit has none available."

I've checked and rechecked the policies and everything *looks* fine! 

I even setup a DSSU storage unit to test the policy and when using
DSSU the backups work perfectly but when switched back to the robot
storage unit I get status 96 again.

I've used robtest to mount/unmount and move tapes and all works fine
too.. I'm running out of ideas! I've like to think I'm fairly
experienced in netbackup (3 years a user) and I've overcome problems
before but this has me stumped.

If anyone has any idea's as to things it could be please let me know!



Thanks


Sam