I called HP, they did ask me to run LTT tools but I could not get them run for 
any reason so they did decide to replace drive, aparently it was the faulty 
drive that I had which was going down constantly, after it was replaced I do 
not 
see drives going down anymore.

Thanks guys for help.

Chris


On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Krzys wrote:

> I have veritas netbackup 6.0 MP3 installed, and I have two LTO-3 tape drives,
> one of them is going down very often, the other one does go down every now and
> then but not that often... I downloaded a script that someone wrote (forgot 
> his
> name) that detects when drive is down and it attempts to bring it up. So far
> after I started it at around 5pm I got like 20 messages that drive was down...
> what would cause drive to be brought down? Is there any settings in netbackup
> not to bring tape drives down? I mean if I can bring it up there is no 
> physical
> problem... how can I find out what brings those drives down?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Chris
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