Hey folks, I'd be really grateful if someone could offer some advice as I'm stuck.
I used to work with as a three person systems team, the company went bust and I'm now re-employed in the same building on my own. For backing up I use an Overland Powerloader which uses two SDLT320 tape drives.
The problem is I needed to buy new tapes, so I ordered more using the MR-SAMCL-01 order number, however I've tried one of the new tapes and backupexec just sticks on loading media, reporting the alert that media needs to be loaded. I loaded an existing tape to see if it worked, and it did so without any problem. Both old and new are Quantum.
So I looked at the new tape and noticed it has the DLT logo on it but there's no 'super', it looks like this:
Whereas the existing tapes have a logo that looks like this:
The boxes also match, the new tapes have a normal DLT logo whereas the older tapes have the Super DLT logo.
So what is the difference between the two logos? On much older DLT tapes, the logo is just DLT but those tapes are brown, these new ones are dark green., matching the other SDLT tapes.
Is this a duff tape or what is going on? I don't want to open up any more tapes in the batch as I won't be able to return them if they are the wrong tapes.
Thanks,
John
I used to work with as a three person systems team, the company went bust and I'm now re-employed in the same building on my own. For backing up I use an Overland Powerloader which uses two SDLT320 tape drives.
The problem is I needed to buy new tapes, so I ordered more using the MR-SAMCL-01 order number, however I've tried one of the new tapes and backupexec just sticks on loading media, reporting the alert that media needs to be loaded. I loaded an existing tape to see if it worked, and it did so without any problem. Both old and new are Quantum.
So I looked at the new tape and noticed it has the DLT logo on it but there's no 'super', it looks like this:
Whereas the existing tapes have a logo that looks like this:
The boxes also match, the new tapes have a normal DLT logo whereas the older tapes have the Super DLT logo.
So what is the difference between the two logos? On much older DLT tapes, the logo is just DLT but those tapes are brown, these new ones are dark green., matching the other SDLT tapes.
Is this a duff tape or what is going on? I don't want to open up any more tapes in the batch as I won't be able to return them if they are the wrong tapes.
Thanks,
John
