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discussion comment 20 Jan 2010

fpeek commented on: Alert Media is write protected but it is not.

Hello all, thanks for your replies. We did exactly what CLakey did withou changing the cables, just the drive. The defect was very much likely to be the drive it self. There is a little pin in the drive which detects if the tape is write ...

discussion comment 05 Jan 2010

fpeek commented on: Alert Media is write protected but it is not.

No, I never reached a resolution on this. After I have read your forum posts my feelings are exactly the same about that it might be somekind of hardware problem. So if you have some kind of answer about this problem please let me ...

discussion comment 24 Nov 2009

fpeek commented on: Alert Media is write protected but it is not.

Thanks for the input, gentlemen. We use the following media set: Daily The properties are: Overwrite protection period: None Append period:None Infinite - Allow Append That's it. Very basic really. So it should be ...

discussion comment 09 Nov 2009

fpeek commented on: Alert Media is write protected but it is not.

Updating the firmware didn't do much. Last friday I used a tape from nov 2007 which was mounted 21 times since then. And again the tape was seen as write protected. Could the problem be that they are too old? Because when I use a brand new one ...

discussion comment 12 Oct 2009

fpeek commented on: Alert Media is write protected but it is not.

The diagnostic came up with some issues. One of them was updating the firmware which I did. Lets see and wait.

discussion comment 11 Oct 2009

fpeek commented on: Alert Media is write protected but it is not.

Thanks Ken and Hemant, Running a diagnostic of the manufacuter of the drive is a good idea. I will try that right away.

New forum discussion 09 Oct 2009

fpeek posted: Alert Media is write protected but it is not.

I need a solution Write protected problem Specs: w2k3 server SP2 , backupexec 10.1 SP3 rev 5629, LTO2 400Gb tapes, HP Storageworks Ultrium 448. Always used the same tape with the same drive and now all of a sudden I