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brandontmyers
Level 2
11 years ago

Inventory fails with new tapes

Hi All, I have Backup Exec 2010 R3 running on Windows Server 2008 R2. I have had no problem running inventories in the past. However I just received new HP LTO-4 Ultrium RW tapes, and the inventory...
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  • Larry_Fine's avatar
    Larry_Fine
    11 years ago

    The adamm.log shows that you are using an LTO2 drive, which CANNOT read anything newer than that.  So, you may use LTO1 media or LTO2 media.  That is all.

     

    0004:0000:0000:0000  "LSI_SCSI", (Port Driver)
    0004:0000:0004:0000  "HP      Ultrium 2-SCSI  S63W", (Tape Device), "\\.\Tape0"
    0004:0000:0004:0001  "HP      1x8 G2 AUTOLDR  3.00", (Changer Device), "\\.\MediumChanger1"

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Larry_Fine
Level 6
11 years ago

The adamm.log shows that you are using an LTO2 drive, which CANNOT read anything newer than that.  So, you may use LTO1 media or LTO2 media.  That is all.

 

0004:0000:0000:0000  "LSI_SCSI", (Port Driver)
0004:0000:0004:0000  "HP      Ultrium 2-SCSI  S63W", (Tape Device), "\\.\Tape0"
0004:0000:0004:0001  "HP      1x8 G2 AUTOLDR  3.00", (Changer Device), "\\.\MediumChanger1"