The tapes are indeed the proper media.
And the robot and drive respond perfectly to the robtest in 
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin.
The robot and drive are seen and I can get an inventory report etc from within 
NBU. 

Within Netbackup, I never get as far as being able to load a tape into the 
drive. The arm never even moves. It just dies with the error #96 as soon as I do
a manual backup. I can't help but think that I either haven't configured the 
media server properly or that I've not setup the volume pool properly. 
Is there a step by step way for doing this? I've followed the wizard and get 
no errors.

Any other recommendations?

+-----------------------+
+       Keith           +
+-----------------------+






On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Dean wrote:

>  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           +
> > +-----------------------+
> >
> >
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