Dear Robert,

It seems reasonable. I will try it on our customer next week. I had worked
for support Legato for 5 years but never met before. Very strange. However,
why it return I/O error? Although for the tapes I labeled by nsrmm, it
returns I/O error.

Millions Thanks.

Alex Li
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Maiello" <robert.maiello AT MEDEC DOT COM>
To: <NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Networker] Interesting: Cannot label new tape


> I'll take a try at this; because, yes, I've seen a lot of strange things
> before.
>
> If you go into the volumes window and scroll to the very top do you see
> a tape called "-"   (the volume name is dash) ??
>
> When this happened this us; everytime it went to label a blank tape it
> came up with the volume name "-".   It then checked the volume/media
database
> and there was a volume actually called "-"  .  Truly amazing; how it got
> there is beyond me.   Used tapes, of course, labeled fine.
>
> Removing this volume in gui solved the problem.
>
>
> Robert Maiello
> Thomson
> Medical Economics
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:20:18 +0800, Alex T. H. Li <alexlihk AT HOTMAIL DOT 
> COM>
wrote:
>
> >I can label the tape and use the tape if I use it as a single drive.
Label
> >it by nsrmm and mount it by nsrmm.
> >
> >However, when using GUI or nsrjb to inventory the labeled tape, it return
> >I/O error. We can do now is using the old tapes only. All the new tape
> >cannot be inventory by the library.
> >
> >Anyone met this strange case?
> >
> >Thx.
> >
> >Alex Li
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Davina Treiber" <treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM>
> >To: <NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
> >Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 2:42 AM
> >Subject: Re: [Networker] Interesting: Cannot label new tape
> >
> >
> >> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 20:46:02 +0800, Alex T. H. Li
<alexlihk AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>
> >wrote:
> >>
> >> >> I found that I can label the tape if I manually (or use "nsrjb -n"
> >option)
> >> >> put the tape in the drive. I can use it label it and backup data
very
> >> >well.
> >> >> However, when I mount it with Networker, no matter GUI or nsrjb, it
> >> >returns
> >> >> I/O error.
> >> >>
> >> >> This occurs on new tapes only, no problem for old tapes.
> >>
> >> It is normal to see an I/O error when labelling a new tape. This is
> >because
> >> NetWorker reads the tape first to check for an existing label, and not
> >> finding one it will report the error then go on to write a new label. I
> >> think this is what you are asking, am I right?
> >>
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