Video Screencast Help
Search Video Help Close Back
to help
Not able to make it to Vision this year? Get a sampling in the Best of Vision on Demand group.

All Media Unrecognized

Updated: 21 May 2010 | 4 comments
Brian Leach's picture
0 0 Votes
Login to vote

Our backups were working fine for about a month. At the end of May they just seemed to stop working. Now, any tape we place in the drive comes up as unrecognized media. Each night the backup job sits at 'loading media'. We are able to successfully quick erase/long erase and label the media without errors or alerts. However, the media name never sticks and the tape continues to show as unrecognizable media with a ? as its label. It is also placed into the retired media set. This is happening to old media that was working and new media that has never been used. To my knowledge there have not been any changes to the software so we are baffled as to why this is occuring.

Thanks for any assistance.

Comments

Joshua Small 2's picture
21
Jun
2006
0 Votes 0
Login to vote

Hi Brian,

This sounds a lot like my old problem.

http://forums.veritas.com/discussions/thread.jspa?...

I wish I could be more positive, but we never did find a fix for it. In the end, we moved the media server to another machine and with the same tape drive never had an issue.

Deepali Badave's picture
23
Jun
2006
0 Votes 0
Login to vote

Hello,

Try installing latest drivers:

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/273853.htm


NOTE : If we do not receive your reply within two business days, this post would be marked assumed answered and would be moved to answered questions pool.

Brian Leach's picture
28
Jun
2006
0 Votes 0
Login to vote

Thanks Joshua and Deepali....I will be on site Friday to have a look again at the problem. I'll try the drivers and see what happens. I'll post back when I have something to report.

Ajit Kulkarni's picture
29
Jun
2006
0 Votes 0
Login to vote

Hello Brian,

Waiting for the results.

Regards


NOTE : If we do not receive your reply within two business days, this post would be marked "assumed answered" and would be moved to "answered questions" pool.