When we have had this problem, I go to the media tab all media and the tape
is usually listed twice once as a cleaning media
and once as you would expect, I just delete the entry that is labeled clean
media. I haven not figured out why this happens sometimes




"D George" wrote:
>
>I am having a strange problem. I am using 2 ADIC FastStor7 Autoloaders
with
>Quantum DLT8000 drives in them, with Backup Exec 8.5 build 3572. Lately
>when I do an inventory, several tapes, including brand new ones, inventory
>as "Cleaning Media". I have loaded the latest firmware updates for the
drives,
>and have also read Technote ID 190522, which did not help. The slots are
>NOT checked to be "cleaning slots". I have been using Backup Exec for over
>5 years, and this is the first problem I have had with it. I clean my tape
>drive daily with cleaning tapes, and the tapes work fine if I use NTBackup.
>
>
>Any help that anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.