Check what drive type the tape drives are defined as.
Check that your media all have the same media type as the drive type.
Then check that the storage unit has the correct robot number, and density
(density should match the drive type).
Finally, check that your policy is pointing to the correct storage unit.


 On 6/13/06, Keith W <keith at cydonia.net> wrote:
>
> I am having trouble getting my old Exabyte EXB210 to work in NB 5.1 using
> Red Hat 7.2 as the media server. I know the robot is old and whatnot but
> it is
> indeed in the list of supported robots and I have used it recently in
> another
> setup so I know the robot and drive to be good.
>
> The specific problem is this.
> NB can see the robot and drive. I can get an inventory from the library.
> I can not do any backups, I continue to get an error stating that there
> are
> no more volume in the pool. I try to do a simple tape clean and it says
> there
> is no cleaning tape defined. I try to run the tests and it tells me
> "drive is not DOWN canceling test".
>
> Up until last week this media server was working just fine with a stand
> alone
> 8mm drive, and the EXB 210 was working just fine being controled with
> Solaris
> and mt/ufsdump.
>
> Any troubleshooting tips are greatly appreciated. I don't know if this is
> Red Hat not knowing about the robot/drive (not likely as NB can see it
> all)
> More likely. I've skipped something in the setup of the robot within NB
> and
> the NB config and the new policy.
>
> Configuration
> -------------
> Master Server: Kubuntu Linux
> Media Server: Red Hat 7.2
> Robot/Drive: Exabyte EXB 210 set to SCSI control mode.
> Clients: Solaris 8
> NetBackup 5.1
>
>
>
> Thanks for any and all information.
>
>
> +-----------------------+
> +       Keith           +
> +-----------------------+
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Veritas-bu maillist  -   Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: 
http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-bu/attachments/20060613/473c0650/attachment.html