Hi,
I bought a brand new tapestreamer from Dell (Powervault 110 LTO2 external) for my Dell SC1600 server with W2K3 SBS. But Backup Exec 9.1 (SP3) gives problems. BE recognizes the streamer as a CERTANCE 1 streamer but It doesn't work. It gives the error: Invalid Physical Volume Library Argument
In the properties it gives on the media type: xxx, (read) no, (write) no
So I think BE doesn't see it should be a LTO-2. I tryed several options in the device wizard, but no improvement.
In the SCSI bios everything is oke and the tapestreamer works fine with NTBackup. (Although I first had to copy mll_BE.dll to %systemroot%\System32, see DOC ID 264969)
After trying several suggestions found on internet and in the Veritas documents I was so desperate,
I installed BE 9.1 again (complete clean install!). No difference. It still gives the following error:
inventory or label tapes:error:
Inventory Drive 0001 -- The job failed with the following error: Invalid Physical Volume Library Argument.
The BEdiag gives the following data:
10/05/05 20:03:04 Device Registry:
Scsi Address
Prt :Bus :Tar :Lun Attributes
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0000:0000:0000:0000 "atapi", (Port Driver)
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0001:0000:0000:0000 "atapi", (Port Driver)
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0002:0000:0000:0000 "mraid35x", (Port Driver)
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0003:0000:0000:0000 "adpu160m", (Port Driver)
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0004:0000:0000:0000 "adpu160m", (Port Driver)
0004:0000:0006:0000 "CERTANCEULTRIUM 2 1748", (Tape Device), "\\.\Tape0"
------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0005:0000:0000:0000 "symmpi", (Port Driver)
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10/05/05 20:03:12 Device Discovery:
Scsi Address
Prt :Bus :Tar :Lun Attributes
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0004:0000:0006:0000 Device Name "\\.\Tape0"
Primary Inquiry "CERTANCEULTRIUM 2 1748"
Serial Number "CERTANCEULTRIUM 2 JK00VV6"
Device Flags SCSI, SN(TYPE 1)
Device State 3, Online
Device IDs 1002, {76D58839-8CA9-4089-8D52-835CCEC9D604}
Device Name "CERTANCE 1"
Device Type 0, ""
Device Features 0x00000000
Device Element 0, 0
------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10/05/05 20:03:12 Device Discovery End:
What's wrong... I'm lost ;-(
pieter