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Amaan's avatar
Amaan
Level 6
13 years ago

Tape loading error

Master server 7.0.1/ Windows 2008 R2 Media server 7.0.1/ Windows 2003 Tape drive LTO2/tape LTO2 Couple days before i have made some tuning and changed BUFFER size to 262144 from 65536. After th...
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    13 years ago

    "The tape device at index -1 has a maximum block size of 65536 bytes, a buffer size of 262144 cannot be used"

    NBU is merely REPORTING the error.

    I have seen this some time ago when the default Windows 2003 tape driver was used. It is also possible that the HBA is limiting block size.

    Have a look at this TN: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH78069

Amaan's avatar
Amaan
Level 6
13 years ago

Didnt research root cause of the issue. just changed the value back into 65536. will try to work on this later. will put the root cause of the issue and solution. will go through all above advices.