I have recently installed a new HP scsi tape drive and ever since my backups have not worked. the drive itself installed fine, the admin tool shipped with it says everything is ok and i have the latest drivers, however in backup exec the backup fails saying "Ready; No Idle Devices are available"
The drive itself shows as offline, it comes back online fine but again fails the next time the backup runs. anybody have any ideas??
Did you try using the device configuration wizard? It is located on the Tools menu. If that doesn't work, uninstall the windows drivers, reboot, then run the wizard. It is best not to use the windows drivers.