Yes, we had a similar problem but it was the result of a power
outage.  The problem for us was a networking/communications issue
with the robot not being available to the server.

There is a TechNoteID: 233113 on the Veritas site that explains 
several reasons why this may happen.  You may want to take a look.

> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:40:07 -0400
> From: Charles R Somogyi <charles.somogyi AT bms DOT com>
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Robotic drives are gone.....
> 
> Hello:
> 
> I have had my robotic config disappear twice in my NB 3.4
> DataCenter Environment; in turn, my drives come up as AVR. I then
> have to redefine the robotic control via tpconfig and make all
> the drives robotic.
> 
> Has happened right after bp.kill_all and the a S77netbackup.
> Never happened in my 3.2 environments.
> 
> Has anybody run into something like this?
> 
> (HP-UX NB 3.4 DataCenter/L700)
> 
> Charlie Somogyi
> BMS
> Princeton, NJ
> 609-818-3589
> 
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