Tape Labelling Error?

[eeicai]

Hi,

When I label brand new tapes for example 'FULL' pool, although the tape labels ok according to the barcode, NW6.0 reports

media warning\\.\Tape0 reading: unknown error 1104(0x450).

all tapes are new and both drives have been cleaned

any ideas much appreciated.
thanks

 

[605]

This is obvious and it is normal for each backup software.

To make sure not to overwrite a valid tape, the first thing such software will do is to detect a label. Of course this is impossible on a new tape and returns an error.

 

[eeicai]

Interesting? because I have another backup server and it does NOT give any error messages labelling new tapes as the one in question.

 

[605]

Look at the daemon.log file - you should at least see read I/O errors.