I have vmware 4.1 hosting server 08 and Win server 03. hw went nuts loosing the raid info. recuilding from scratch, reinstalling os's, BE 2010, i have many issues:
With tape drive (IBM LTO3's) when i install the IBM drivers (v6184), the os alone says it has issues talking to the device, BE will "install" it but the drives wont appear in the app itself. I tried using BE drivers and any job times out talking to the drives. Just trying to catalog the tape gets "The block size being used is incorrect."
I installed BE onto the Win03 server and with the same drivers (v6184) and it appears that BE works with SOME tapes. When i try to catalog tapes many recent tapes give an error "The block size being used is incorrect."
Is there a tool to test that the OS is working with the tape drive properly first, or is this indeed a sw problem??
TIA!