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DLT8000 Drives showing as "writing, idle"
Well good news it seems! Came in this morning to find the tape drives back to normal and no more writing idle messages. Sweet. I'll keep a close eye on this for now and see what happens over the next few days. Thx once again for your advice LGTObug.- SPGuk
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- Forum: Data Recovery
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DLT8000 Drives showing as "writing, idle"
Hi LGTObug. Thx for the advice, however I have just checked and can see that the Removable Storage Manager service is up and running fine. This is set to automatic startup on our systems so there would have been no need for us to turn it off (until now... cue evil laugh ;-). I'll try stopping...- SPGuk
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- Forum: Data Recovery
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DLT8000 Drives showing as "writing, idle"
Forgot to say that I'm running W2k SP2 and Networker Admin 6.1.2 if it's important.- SPGuk
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- Forum: Data Recovery
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DLT8000 Drives showing as "writing, idle"
I'm running a Scalar 100 autoloader with 6 DLT8000 drives on a Win2k server and over the last few months we've been getting a "writing, idle" message on random drives each night. It started off quite sporadically in the beginning but now it happens all the time - sometimes two...- SPGuk
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