Dear PJ_Backup,
thank you for your qucik answer. We know, BE 20 is not more supported, but the changes to 21 are not so severe concerning the tape or library. When the drivers are OK, the LTO-9-Device should work also in BE20. And the last listet LTO-drive in BE 21 HCL is LTO-8.
The Library is an "Autoloader 3", model "V700, which is the same machine we used the years before with an LTO-6-drive. The actual firmware is v100, also the same as before. So this should not be a factor for the error.
The drive is an LTO-9 from IBM. I got the driver from Quantum-Homepage for Win 2012R2, which is working well with Win 2012.
The last link from you is exactly describing what happens. I did read about the erasing command, which smells like it is the same reason. But 18 hours are very much. But maybe it is not enough for LTO-9-tapes, which are longer than LTO-8.
The problem is the timeout by initialising or by erasing the tape, how long BE wil wait untill showing the device offline.
But my question was and is: is there a command or a registry key, what would exceed in Backup Exec the limit of 16 minutes until the drive and the loader goes offline? And I suspect the parameter is in BE, because the drive itself continues to calibrate, even the drive and library is offline in BE.
16 minutes is 960 seconds or 0x3C0 in Hex. I cannot find a key in the registry like 960/3C0. Or is this limit hardcoded in BE?
We did only buy 'not preinitalized tapes', because we did'nt know that there is an offer for this (b.e. called "Spectra Certified Media" in https://spectralogic.com/features/lto-9/). But maybe they are more expensive. And I would prefer to initialize them in my drive. Even I don't think there is a difference. But then I would expect, all the tapes should be preinitialized before the first use.I did hear about a tool, what is initializing the tapes outside from BE. Can you offer a source for that?
JuZe
