For future reference
Finally got HP tech out ( needed to bring a win server with him to run Library and Tape Tools )
Turns out the short interconnect cables ( between drives or between drives and library controller ) were faulty.
Definately 2 on the second library and probably 1 on the first...
On HP libraries we have you can reserve slots efectively making the library have less slots available. This fixed a similar problem we had with networker licenses.
Thanks for the input appUT & speculos,
The SCSI card is LVD ( 80MB ) but if I disable the first drive(the one that works) the second drive still produces errors and SCSI slowdown. We have a second library which I have tried, but both drives produce the same errors and scsi slowdown, even if one...
Thanks for taking the time to answer 605, this happens on every tape so that rules media out. Will try replaceing cables when we get this restore finally done.
Using Solstice backup 6.1 with HP MSL6030 tape library with 2 LTO2 drives connected to a Dual Channel LVD controller on a Sun V240 with one drive on each channel of the controller. When a backup is started the second drive runs very slow and we get messages that scsi bus is syncing to slower...
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