We run BE 9.1 rev 4691 on this Windows 2000/SP4 server. It's had a DAT-20/40 drive and had been working fine for a long time until the backups began to exceed the tape's capacity. I installed a new, hot-plug DAT72 drive, and it recognized it automatically. I got one good backup that night, but the next day it started getting 33152 errors in the app-log and sonysdx-VRTS 11 errors in the sys-log.
I tried to install the latest BE 9.1 device drivers, using the file from 273853, but it reported "The wizard was interrupted before VERITAS Windows ... device drivers could be completely installed ...". The app-log showed a corresponding info event, MsiInstaller 11708, "Product: VERITAS Device Driver Install -- Installation operation failed.".
I deleted the device in BE/Devices, and then couldn't get it to see it at all. There were no devices shown in Device Manager / Tape Drives. I removed/reinserted the drive, then it reappeared in Dev Mgr / Tape drives. But still it does not show in BE Devices.
Removable Storage / Physical Locations showed two obsolete drives, one the DAT 20-40. I deleted both. It does not show an entry for the new DAT-72 drive, even after replugging it.
I have installed SP4a for BE 9.1 (280008), but not yet rebooted the server - waiting for a window to do that. I plan to upgrade all firmwware on the server when I'm able to do that.
Is there anything I can do now (before upgrading/rebooting) to get BE to recognize this new tape drive again?
TIA
Bob Peitzke
Sr. IT Manager
Colony Advisors, LLC
Century City, CA, USA