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[Veritas-bu] Help, media issues

2006-08-22 10:06:46
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues
From: tlewick at hrblock.com (Lewick, Taylor)
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:06:46 -0500
Configured the same, different then the other type of LTO media and
drives in the library...

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Keating [mailto:pkeating at bank-banque-canada.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:01 AM
To: Lewick, Taylor; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues

Are then LTO2 tapes and drives configured as the same "type", ie.
HCART2, and different than the type of the LTO cartridges and drives?

Paul

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf 
> Of Lewick, Taylor
> Sent: August 22, 2006 9:39 AM
> To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues
> 
> 
> Hi all, having an issue that is stumping me...
> 
> This past weekend we moved one of our tape libraries.
> It has LTO1 and LTO2 drives and media in it.
> 
> I can see all the drives okay, and LTO1 backups are working fine.
> When I kick off an LTO2 backup job, it immediately freezes any tape it
> tries to load.  If I let it keep running, it just keeps freezing more
> and more tapes.
> 
> The only thing it says is...FREEZING media ID LL1535, it is 
> unmountable
> and cannot be used for backups.
> 
> Media is in correct volume pool, volume group, barcode rules are
> correct, and I even checked that it was loaded into the library
> correctly, i.e. not loaded backwards and write protect tab is not set.
> Furthermore, we haven't made any changes to the above listed 
> attributes.
> I have tried stopping and starting NetBackup several times, no help.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Taylor
> 
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