I have a Dell PowerVault 136T with 4 LTO1 drives. I've been using Veritas Backup Exec for years now and haven't had to many problems that I couldn't figure out. But this one has me stumped. I'm currently running 9.1 at the latest rev.
The library has a barcode reader function so I use barcode labels on all my media. I do get my media from different vendors but use the same one for my barcodes.
I recently purchased another pack of labels and started using them on some tapes. The first month or so things worked fine but now the unit won't allow tapes that have an "L2" on the end of the label. These tapes have all ready been written to with these labels and this library...... I've created a barcode rule in BE indicating the L2 suffix but that didn't help. ( I don't have "Use Bar Code Rules" turned on.)
I did play around with turning this on but then it thinks all media is incompatible. Even the good "L1" tapes. I also tried taking a "L2" label off a tape and it worked fine. I could erase and everything. If I stick any "L2" labeled tape in the library, it will show up in the slots but as soon as I try to do something with it, the job fails with an incompatible media error.
I'm at all the latest firmware and drivers on the drives, library and SCSI card.
Any suggestions? Do "L2" labels only work for Ultrium2 tapes? If so, how come the library could write to the media before? There's data on the tapes that I can't get to.
Thanks in advance,
Sheila