Hello,
Yesterday we added several LTO6 drives to our SL8500 library that has LTO4 drives.
After we installed the new drives, I zoned them to one media server, ran the wizard and it discovered a new robot. Now I have the original ACS(0) and ACS(2), which is the new robot. I also configured a new storage unit on the new media server for the new tapes.
I inserted 10 LTO6 tapes and manually moved them to a volume pool called LTO6_TEST that I just created.
I ran a test backup using the new media server and it ran successfully.
This morning I added 10 more drives to the library and when I ran the Robot Inventory, it tries to add the tapes but when it goes to the first of the LTO6 tapes that already existed there, it shows the following:
Update failed: could not add new media ID 'M00146' into robot
Insert media failed:
media ID not unique in database (34)
And then it stops and doesn't add the new media. What am I doing wrong? Also, what would be the best practice for a libarry with 2 different kinds of drives, LTO4 and LTO6?