Drive disabled enabled

[day88]

Guys,

I have four LTO drives but there one drives which a bit strange.

I always get "nsrd: \\.\Tape2 is now enabled read/write" in the daemon log.
When the backup started, it will set to enabled read/write and once the backup completed. the drive status will set to NO automatically.

It still working but just curious why is this so...

day88

 

[605]

And i am curious what NO means in this case. To which field does this apply?


BTW - there should also be meaages pointing out that the drive has been disabled. In which context do you find them?

 

[day88]

Hi 605,

In the tape2 properties under General tab, there a "write enabled" selection box. everytime after the backup, it will set to NO even though i set it to YES.

In my daemon.log, i could not find any meassage saying the the tape is disabled. It only have the "nsrd: \\.\Tape2 is now enabled read/write".

 

[605]

This parameter does not apply to the device but to the media. Actually, this field should be an output field only.

The one for the device is "Enabled".

NetWorker sets a media to full and read-only if it can not recover from a write error. If you insert anoter media it will default back to read/write mode. This is what you see.

So i expect a media problem.

 

[day88]

Strange but the backup went successful...