We have had this problem from time to time after powering off
our server and tape drives. We didn't figure out a definite
way to get it to work. We just had to keep kicking it to get
it to start. (Power off everything, the bring things back up slowly,
changing the order of startup etc.). eventually everything took.
This isn't consistant, and we it doesn't happen every time.

Also, do you have any tape device drivers other than ADSM loaded.
If so, kill them, or make sure that they don't load until ADSM's
drivers see the devices

Piche, Dennis (D.M.) wrote:
>
> Hello ADSMers,
>
> Here is my setup:
>
> Dell 4200 Server
> NT 4.0 OS
> ADSM V3 - /w Client Patch 2 & Server Patch 3
> DLT4000 internal
> DLT4700 external  (this is the device I am attempting to use with ADSM)
>
> Query drive gives GENERICTAPE instead of DLT.
>
> The + sign in Server Utilities gives TAPE0 and TAPE1 rather than the usual
> mt#.#.#.#.
>
> When backup is attempted, ADSM errors out with ANS1312 ... Server media
> mount not possible.
>
> I think this might be because my DEVCLASS is of type DLT and my tape is of
> type GENERICTAPE.
>
> I think that something is taking control of the DLT4700 before ADSM SCSI
> Service can... is that possible?
>
> Any suggestions.
>
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