I'm trying to use an Exabyte 8505XL drive connected to an NT box. I'm seeing
the following error whenever I insert a tape. The drive seems to
work -- sometimes. If the backup or archive requires a new tape,
the drive works fine, but restores seem to be unable to position
the tape correctly and ADSM seems to be unable to add information
to the end of a previously used volume.
The tape drive seems to be OK when connected to a local Sun box
(diagnostics check out, tape operation seems correct and
read/write performance seems to be acceptable).
The error message is:
ANR8302E I/O error on drive TAPE01 (MT4.0.0.0) (OP=TESTREADY, CC=-1, KEY=FF,
ASC=FF, ASCQ=FF, Description=An undetermined error has occurred). Refer to
Appendix B in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action.
ANR8328I 056: GENERICTAPE volume DSM007 mounted in drive TAPE01 (MT4.0.0.0).
Naturally, the error message explanation says 'contact your
system administrator'. Any ideas?
The drive is defined as a GENERICTAPE device -- should it be a
8MM device? I tried that and neither the ADSM device driver or
the ADSM server would recognize the drive. It seems to work as a
GENERICTAPE device.
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