04-01-2014 12:21 AM
Hi All,
Thanks in advance, I want to test a few scripts related to Netbackup in UNIX and Windows Environment so I have installed a MHVTL a free virtual tape library in a Linux test environment and it is working fine, I need to test for Windows environment also so i have created,an iSCSI target in the Linux and mapped all the robot and tape drives in Windows 2008 R2 server, But in that server, my robots are detected as Other Media chander and my tape drives are detected as Other devices instead of Tape drives, and in tpautoconf -t output no tape drives are detecting, since i am new to windows environment can u please suggest what will be the issue if there is any driver issue can you please provide me a link fro downloading the driveres for Win 2008 server Please find the Robot and Tape drive details below
Tape drive Models:
STK T10000B
IBM ULT3580-TD4
IBM ULT3580-TD5
Robot Models:
STK L80
STK L700
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04-01-2014 01:08 AM
'Other Media changer' is perfectly fine as this means the default Microsoft drivers are used.
For tape drives, you need to find drivers.
IBM drivers can be downloaded from IBM web site.
STK drivers may be more challenging - I have searched on the Oracle web site some time ago but was unable to find anything as a non-Oracle customer.
Unfortunately Symantec does not have any tape drivers for 64-bit OS. They only had drivers for 32-bit OS.
Unless you can find drivers for the STK tape drives, you may not be able to use them.
The IBM drives with drivers from IBM should be fine.
04-01-2014 01:08 AM
'Other Media changer' is perfectly fine as this means the default Microsoft drivers are used.
For tape drives, you need to find drivers.
IBM drivers can be downloaded from IBM web site.
STK drivers may be more challenging - I have searched on the Oracle web site some time ago but was unable to find anything as a non-Oracle customer.
Unfortunately Symantec does not have any tape drivers for 64-bit OS. They only had drivers for 32-bit OS.
Unless you can find drivers for the STK tape drives, you may not be able to use them.
The IBM drives with drivers from IBM should be fine.
04-03-2014 10:53 PM
Hi Marianna,
Thnks for your update, As u suggested i have installed the driver for IBM drives but still it is not detected, still it is showing other devices only, It will be greatful if you share me the link for the IBM drivers i it is possible
Thanks in advance
Regards,
Praveen Kumar.B
04-04-2014 01:02 AM
You can look for it here:
http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=TAPE-FILES
05-25-2014 12:15 AM
Have experienced this before with IBM tape & other drivers on windows, they are installed but not loaded
Some times you can get the driver to load by running update driver for each tape drive, other times you have to reboot to get them to load
In your case with an emulator, the scsi inquiry may not return what is expected from tape drives
05-25-2014 04:50 AM
New user who has not been back since 4 April....
05-26-2014 01:37 AM
Oh did not see that, must keep closer watch on the dates in the future
05-26-2014 02:13 AM
I have sent him a Private Message. Still no reply...