VXA-360

[Skippy2007]

Running into a capacity issue with my VXA tape drive. Here is what's going on:

I have a VXA-2 PacketLoader 1x10 1U Tape Autoloader that I am using x23 tapes in. We started maxing the tapes out so I installed the VXA-360 upgrade drive into the PacketLoader. That's all working just fine. The problem, when I attempt to do a large backup to the tapes, the tapes are "maxing" out at the old capacty of the old drive (107 GB) instead of what it should be able to hold (160/360GB). I tried 2 brand new x23 tapes, and those hold the higher capacity without a problem, so I know the drive and software is good. The question is, how to I get the tapes that were used for backups in the "old" drive to take the new capacty? I tried short and long erase with no change. Any help would be great.

One last not, the format option is not showing up for the VXA tapes in BackupExec.

Chris

[Dominic_Moore]

I had the same issue. Use the Exabyte drive utility to set the drive to "always use max capacity when overwriting" otherwise older tapes will be re used at the same capacity.

[R_H_2]

You need to reformat the tapes to take advantafe of the higher density.

http://www.exabyte.com/support/online/kb/display.cfm?id=1026

That is how to do it from VXA-1 to VXA-2.  The process is the same.