Dang. I never even noticed the "-t" option on scanner, to tell it type of 
media. Don't mind me. :-) Sorry for wasting time.

-- 
Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
2500 Jackson St
Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel:  215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
<mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>


EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
01/13/2010 01:02:34 PM:

> We use to use both SDLT-320 and SDLT-600 tapes (I has one library of 
each 
> type of drive). Now, we've upgraded to a single library of  LTO-4, and I 

> have a standalone SDLT-600 drive, for when I need to recover from the 
old 
> tapes. Since the SDLT-600 drive will read SDLT-320 tapes, and I'll never 

> use this drive for writing, only reading, I figured I would be set. But 
> when I try to do a "scanner -m" on an older SDLT-320 tape, I get:
> 
> 8936:scanner: scanning sdlt600 tape 1127154055 on 
> rd=admnman012.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov:\\.\Tape0
> 8938:scanner: sdlt600 tape 4089255089 for volume 1127154055 conflicts 
with 
> existing
> media database entry for sdlt320 tape 4089255089
> 
> So somewhere I guess I need to tell Networker to allow this? But where? 
I 
> see nothing in the device properties.  It seems to think any tape put in 

> that SDLT-600 drive is an SDLT-600 tape, and that is not the case.
> 
> Anyone know how I can do this? It works fine reading the older SDLT-600 
> tapes ...
> 
> -- 
> Michael Leone
> Network Administrator, ISM
> Philadelphia Housing Authority
> 2500 Jackson St
> Philadelphia, PA 19145
> Tel:  215-684-4180
> Cell: 215-252-0143
> <mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>
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