Ive not had much luck in sorting this problem out, so im gonna ask you guys & see if you can come up with a solution.
NT4 Server, SP6
HP Dat 40 drive, SCSI
Tekram DC-390U2WE card
The scsi adapter detects the drive, the drive is detected in windows, installed the driver for the card & downloaded the driver for the tape drive.
The tape drive is using the 4mm dat drivers
I have used HPs Storageworks Library & Tape tools & the drive is fine according to the diagnostic checks.
The server is being backed up using ntbackup.
The scheduled job kicks in, ntbackup checks the files & then starts, after approx 3hrs into the process, it stops working, the tape drive is no longer responding, yet there is a green light on the drive.
rebooting the server also does not resolve it, but when you reboot, the scsi card no longer detects the drive.
The only way for the system to see the tape drive again is to power off the server completely.
Anyone got any ideas??
Thanks