On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Clooney, David wrote:

> Hi All
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> We have a unusual situation going which maybe some of you have come
> across?
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> Environment - all 5.1 MP5
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> Mater - Solaris 8
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> Media Servers - winodws2000/2003
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> On Friday we started to experience numerous "Status 52: timed out
> waiting for media manager to mount volume".
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> After a nightmare of a weekend we are still having issues. The following
> is what I have found.
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> We have a particular media server that seems to be causing the issue for
> reasons unknown.
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>> From testing when this media is up and Netbackup is up or down and I
> initiate a restore on another media server, the job starts and I can see
> the mount request in the ACSLS log, however the job will staying in a
> mounting state.  If I then reboot the problem media server( I think) and
> keep a constant ping on the server, as soon as I lose ip connectivity
> the job on the other media server will immediately issue the SCSI
> reserve on the drive and the restore will complete.
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> For some reason this media server seems to causing mount requests to
> complete throughout the environment just by being powered on as I have
> tested with netbackup DOWN.
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> All our media servers are SAN connected and  are sharing 14 stk 9940B
> drives, I have rebuilt the SSO environment and we have no discrepancies
> in the global device DB.
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> It just seems that when this problem media server is powered on it is
> causing issues.
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> Anyone have any ideas ?
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> Thanks
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> Dave
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Usually when I get that, it is because of a DOWN'd drive, bad TAPE or 
robotic error, is it only happening on that one media serve? If so the 
drives may be no good.
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