How to temporarly remove an external SCSI tape drive, and add it back in la

[Les_Elton]

and add it back in later.

We have an new external LTO3 tape drive, its external and we are having some issues with it. I would like to be able to physically remove the drive, work on it, then replace the drive with our Windows 2003 server still running.

Upon replacing the tape drive, I was not able to get BE to continue backing up to the drive. I even tried making it offline/online, enabled/disabled, re-inventory drive. Nothing worked, I was forced to reboot the server.

Any ideas how I can phycally remove an external scsi tape drive, then replug it back in later and have BE run without having to reboot the server ?

Les Elton

[Michael_McKenne]

Unless its hot swap, you can't do it. I have been using SCSI tape drives for 15+ years.

[David_Sanz]

Les, I'm afraid Michael is right. It is very difficult to find SCSI drives that support hot-unplugging them

With USB or SATA drives it could work, not with SCSI.

Regards

[Joshua_Small]

Hi,

I have done this successfully often following this procedure:

- Stop BE services

- Unplug the device

- Go to device manager and rescan, it should detect the drive as gone and remove it

- Do your offline work

- Reconnect the device

- Right click on your SCSI interface card, and disable it

- Wait a minute

- Reenable the SCSI interface card in the device manager

- Windows rescans the SCSI ids and reinstall the tape drive

- Start BE services

This is not an official procedure of course, so do so at your own risk.