Hi Paul,

Thanks for that. The fact that the drives keep changing to not write enabled 
are a good indication of this. Can you remind me of the networker commands I 
need to run from the CMD prompt to delete and re-create the jukebox?


Thanks.


Goslin, Paul wrote:
> This is definitely a hardware problem... There is something seriously
> wrong with the communications between your server and the tape library,
> hence the reason Networker keeps disabling the library, because the
> number of errors it is seeing is exceeding an established threshold ... 
> 
> Try deleting and re-creating the juke-box within Networker... 
> 
> You also have to have settings on the pool to enable expired volumes to
> be relabeled for another pool...
> 
> This IS NOT a retention problem.. A tape will not show as 'recyclable'
> unless ALL the save-sets on the tape have been expired...  
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
> > [mailto:NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU] On Behalf Of ee01akk
> > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 10:49 AM
> > To: NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
> > Subject: [Networker] Backup Groups Hanging
> > 
> > Hi Fazil,
> > 
> > It seems like all the media for the ACE CLONING POOL are 
> > marked for recycling, even those media that are not 100% 
> > full. I'm wondering if there is a problem in converting these 
> > volumes that are full, and marked for recyclable back to 0% 
> > appendable? Possibly a retention policy problem!!
> > 
> > One thing I've noticed is that the library keeps getting set 
> > to disabled.  I have to manually right click on MSL5000 and 
> > click Enable/Disable to toggle it.  You can also see in the 
> > screenshot that both tape drives have Write Enabled set to No.
> > 
> > We only use the tapes that are there so as far as I know this 
> > should just run without any intervention.
> > 
> > I have uploaded a screenshot of the tapes console view from the NMC:
> > 
> > http://www.zshare.net/image/531145967b62ee9f/
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