HP does something weird
Not a big surprise when a big company roles out a product and it does something weird and all the current software that is supposed to work doesn't. In this case it is HPs LTO 5 tape library, this the the FC connected version. A large beast with 4 drives and 96 tape slots. Getting it all hooked up was quite straight forward, which was fortunate as there are no instructions at all anywhere. Backup Exec sees it and you can load up the drivers etc. and all is well, you just can't do anything with the library as you can't open the doors to put tapes in or anything useful like use it. The reason is our own fault as we have a CASO server and second backup server all hooked up through Fibre Channel to the libraries. Every other library we have had works fine with this set up and the MPIO software from Microsoft. But this new library won't. For some strange reason when you tell the library to Unlock it doesn't. Why, because we have two servers talking to it and it ...