here's one for the group to hash out with me.

STK L700, Solaris 2.6 Master, v 3.4.1, Brocade Switches, Crossroads Bridges,
SSO.

My client has been having an issue with TWO particular drives.  When a
backup job requests a tape mount, the library satisfies that request, but
never 'mounts' the tape.  It eventually writes to the syslog that the tape
is in a down'd drive.  Its only these two drives.

They have replaced the drives, the bridges and now have asked me to look
into it.  I took a pretty close look at it today, I think it is hardware.
The reason I am leaning there, is when I attempted to dismount the tape from
the L700 panel, the command failed.  Netbackup at that point had already
given up on the two drives and I had already killed the backup jobs, so
there was nothing special going on with the NBU server.

Any thoughts out there?

Thanks

David

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David A. Chapa
NetBackup Consultant
DataStaff, Inc.
http://www.consulting.datastaff.com
847 413 1144
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