How to format "unrecognised media"
- 14 years ago
Hi,
I have finally resolved this issue. Turns out to be a GUI "Feature".
Under the devices tab, there are two folders. One is called Device Pools and the other is the ServerName. The " device pools" has "All devices" underneath it with the tape drive for the server displayed. The other folder (%ServerName%) also has the same tape drive listed underneath it.
However, if you right-click the upper tape device, you will not be able to perform any tasks on the device. If you go to the device listed under "%ServerName%", and right-click you CAN perform tasks.
Therefore, I had to select Erase from the context menu on the lower device listed, not the upper one. Once the tape was erased I was then able to format and lable the tapes and move them into the corrrect medial pools.
Quite why there is a difference in the behaviour of the context menus , I don't know, but it certainly stopped me from working.
regards