I want to put this work-around in a blog so that it does not get "lost" after some time in the midst of the other discussions. This workaround is provided by IT downunder in this discussion
BE recognises each disks by their unique diskids. Under some circumstances, two disk can have the same disk ids. This will present a problem when they are used for B2D folders. Below is how to fix this problem
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All our external USB SATA backup drives are recognized as normal Disk storage and I managed to add most of these to Backup Exec 2012 and put them in a Device Pool. Some disks from the same manufacturer batch were recognized as the same disk in BE Storage (e.g. disk 10 and 11 both showed up as disk 10) and I was not able to add a new disk device.
Then I thought what does maybe distinguise one disk from the other, the Disk Signature ID in sector 0. This is where Mark Russinovich, our SysInternals guru came to the rescue, because I found this article:http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2011/11/08/3463572.aspx.
Work-around:
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