I have no idea what the heck happened but I have a D2D4106 library that I'm using with Data Protector 8.1 which has been working fine until a couple of days ago when everything seems to have gotten messed up to the point that I can't use any of the media or drives. It's so confused that I'm not even sure how to describe the problem or where to start.
I have 8 virtual drives (LT05) set up on the D2D and I have 128 cartridges (slots). It all started when I saw that there was a mount request because there was no more media in the required pool. I tried to format some more "tapes" but the jobs pending had the tape drives busy so I aborted those backup jobs. When I tried to use a drive to format new media the job would hang and I'd get an error that "device unit not ready" (assuming the tape drive). None of the 8 drives appear to be working. 3 of the 8 drives show up as yellow icons, the other 5 are gray. Those that are yellow apparently need to have their serial number rediscovered (as if the "drive" was replaced). Finally, about half of the slots have bar coded virtual tapes that say "Data Protector Foreign media". If I try to import the tape that Data Protector sees as foreign I run into the issue of "device unit not ready" for any tape drive I try to use. At this point I'm thinking I'm going to have to blow the whole thing away and start from scratch. Luckily this is a server that I'm testing but there are a couple of backups on it that are fairly important.
Here's the error I'm seeing on one of the drives when I try to import the foreign media:
[Normal] From: MSM@hpnsantyrant1.americas.hpqcorp.net "DRIVE3" Time: 4/30/2014 1:57:38 PM
Media session 2014/04/30-2 started.
[Normal] From: MMA@hpnsantyrant1.americas.hpqcorp.net "DRIVE3" Time: 4/30/2014 1:57:38 PM
STARTING Media Agent "DRIVE3"
[Normal] From: MMA@hpnsantyrant1.americas.hpqcorp.net "DRIVE3" Time: 4/30/2014 1:57:40 PM
=> UMA@hpnsantyrant1.americas.hpqcorp.net@Changer0:0:19:0
Loading medium from slot 30 to device Tape9:0:26:0C
[Normal] From: MMA@hpnsantyrant1.americas.hpqcorp.net "DRIVE3" Time: 4/30/2014 1:58:00 PM
=> UMA@hpnsantyrant1.americas.hpqcorp.net@Changer0:0:19:0
Dismounting busy drive Tape9:0:26:0C
[Normal] From: MMA@hpnsantyrant1.americas.hpqcorp.net "DRIVE3" Time: 4/30/2014 1:58:01 PM
[90:255] => UMA@hpnsantyrant1.americas.hpqcorp.net@Changer0:0:19:0
Successfully loaded and dismounted busy drive.
[Major] From: MMA@hpnsantyrant1.americas.hpqcorp.net "DRIVE3" Time: 4/30/2014 2:04:52 PM
[90:54] Tape9:0:26:0C
Cannot open device (Unit not ready.)
[Normal] From: MMA@hpnsantyrant1.americas.hpqcorp.net "DRIVE3" Time: 4/30/2014 2:04:52 PM
=> UMA@hpnsantyrant1.americas.hpqcorp.net@Changer0:0:19:0
Unloading medium to slot 30 from device Tape9:0:26:0C
[Normal] From: MMA@hpnsantyrant1.americas.hpqcorp.net "DRIVE3" Time: 4/30/2014 2:04:53 PM
ABORTED Media Agent "DRIVE3"
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0 media out of 1 successfully imported.
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I realize this is a pretty incoherent post, I'm just not even sure where to start....