Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
Cannot load exchanger medium (Target drive is busy.)
If you recieve the error message:
Cannot load exchanger medium (Target drive is busy.)
From Data Protector Manager (or from the backup reports), you have a tape “stuck” in your tape station. This is something that can happen for example if the tape station looses connection to the software using the tape station, (for example a crash on the server) and the software is not setup to automaticly correct the issue itself.
If you want to eject the tape in use you will normally find a option for it on the tape station itself. But a good thing to do is to set up Data Protector to automaticly eject a tape that has taken over a drive.
1) Start Data Protector Manager GUI
2) Select Devices and Media
3) Right click on the library, select properties
4) Go to Control Tab, and select “Eject medium” under the busy drive handling topic
“Fix” for the slow boot of Dell XPS M1530 laptops
Many Dell XPS M1530 laptops are shipped with a DVD-rom that (appears to) have a bug in them. This bug causes the BIOS to use extra long time to check the device before continuing boot. In some cases the boot time is some times up to minutes just for the BIOS to perform it`s checks. And that is when the quick boot is enabled.
The “fix” for this issue is to simply disable the DVD-rom in the BIOS completely (Simply set the Module Bay Device to off). As of now (june 2010), a fix is not available for this issue.
Edit: And yes, this does work for me! My boot time went from 2-4 minutes to seconds!