Yury,

I had a similar problem caused by a write-protected scratch tape.

Yury Goldfeld wrote:
>
> Hi all... Maybe someone can help me with the following problem. I am
> running ADSM Server on an NT machine. The tape autochanger device is
> Spectralogic 10000, but I set it on Exabyte 120 emulation. I then issued
> the following commands to define the autochanger and the two drives:
>
>  define library auto8mmlib libtype=scsi device=lb5.0.0.1
>  define drive auto8mmlib 8mm_mt2 device=mt2.0.0.1 element=80
>  define drive auto8mmlib 8mm_mt4 device=mt4.0.0.1 element=81
>  define devclass auto8mm_class devtype=8mm format=8500 library=auto8mmlib
>   mountlimit=2
>
> I then labeled the first drive -- it worked. However, when it came to an
> actual test backup, it halted with the error message "media mount not
> possible." Also, when the server restarts, it attempt to migrate some
> data from the disk volume to the tape but can't due to "Scratch volume
> mount failed." Am I doing something wrong? Did I, perhaps, not do a step
> after the labeling?
>
> I appreciate any feedback
>   Yury Goldfeld

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