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8.6 not recognizing media

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gozar

IS-IT--Management
Feb 16, 2004
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Hi All - I am stumped. Have just recently been assigned to manage backups for our domain and have a problem with a server several hundred miles away with no tech person in that vicinity.

My internal tapedrive ( Dat) is seen by both W2k and Veritas but when I go to run any type of job I keep getting an error stating that the media format is unrecognized and then the media fails to eject.

This is a new install of BE and the tape drive and motherboard have both been replaced within last 2 months.

The server is a Dell Poweredge(?) 2300 and the drive is a Powervault 100t dds3.

Am currently pulling backups for that server over the wire to cover myself but the inability of hardware replacement and software reinstall to correct this is issue
maddening. HELP! (O:
 
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