Dang. I never even noticed the "-t" option on scanner, to tell it type of
media. Don't mind me. :-) Sorry for wasting time.
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Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
2500 Jackson St
Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel: 215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
<mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>
EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on
01/13/2010 01:02:34 PM:
> We use to use both SDLT-320 and SDLT-600 tapes (I has one library of
each
> type of drive). Now, we've upgraded to a single library of LTO-4, and I
> have a standalone SDLT-600 drive, for when I need to recover from the
old
> tapes. Since the SDLT-600 drive will read SDLT-320 tapes, and I'll never
> use this drive for writing, only reading, I figured I would be set. But
> when I try to do a "scanner -m" on an older SDLT-320 tape, I get:
>
> 8936:scanner: scanning sdlt600 tape 1127154055 on
> rd=admnman012.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov:\\.\Tape0
> 8938:scanner: sdlt600 tape 4089255089 for volume 1127154055 conflicts
with
> existing
> media database entry for sdlt320 tape 4089255089
>
> So somewhere I guess I need to tell Networker to allow this? But where?
I
> see nothing in the device properties. It seems to think any tape put in
> that SDLT-600 drive is an SDLT-600 tape, and that is not the case.
>
> Anyone know how I can do this? It works fine reading the older SDLT-600
> tapes ...
>
> --
> Michael Leone
> Network Administrator, ISM
> Philadelphia Housing Authority
> 2500 Jackson St
> Philadelphia, PA 19145
> Tel: 215-684-4180
> Cell: 215-252-0143
> <mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>
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