Veritas BE 8.6 not recognizing tape

[cyberpossum]

Hi all,
I have a brand new (week old) IBM eServer xSeries 235 server w/ a Ultrium LTO1 internal. Running Veritas BE 8.6. I have had one errorless backup since putting all this in production. The job shows "Scheduled" until it actually tries to run, then gets stuck in a "Loading" status. An alert says something to the effect of "Insert overwritable media". I eject the tape, reinsert and the bu job runs fine. Have tried several small simulations with different tapes and couldn't recreate the prob. Suspecting a funky tape drive. This is the 2nd tape drive. The first one wouldn't eject the tape at all. Any suggestions? Thanks... afro

 

[comtec17]

Do you have Removeable Storage service shutoff on the server?

Are you erasing the tape contents prior to running the job?

 

[cyberpossum]

Not sure about the Removable Storage Shutoff service - will have to check. The backup job is set to overwrite. I had to eject and reinsert the tape after geting the alert that "no overwritable media found..." and everything was fine afterwards. Thanks...