There was a tape drive problem , for repair purpose removed tape drive after shutting down the Server and again switch on the server , it's not swithing ON. Just showing a power LED Indicator , SMPS Fan's working but Server FAN also Not Working .

The obvious is to repair it, but if you have another identical server you can place drives and access data. The replacement should boot as failed server. Make sure to track drives and slot location. Shuffling may cause major failure. It may want to stripe itself again and cause data loss and defeating the purpose.

Lots of good pix of the guts here...

http://support.thesmithlife.com/DLT/

Various intructions.

http://support.thesmithlife.com/DLT/DLTDrive-StuckTape.html

http://www.dectrader.com/docs/set2/ucr_na-CYB201412_002.pdf-1.pdf

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=lpg50246

http://www.ehow.com/how_7861932_remove-stuck-dlt-tape.html

Hello,

With a RAID 5 setup, if you replace the drive with the exact model, you only need to shut down the server, replace the drive, power on, and the RAID will remount the new drive to the needed confiuration.

Good Luck.
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Use cleaning tape and clean the drive.
Update firmware of the tape drive via Library and tape tools.
switch off and switch on the drive.
that's it

you could try opening the drive and delicately untagle the tape (with tweesers) dispose of the tap as it will get stuck again

Have fun!

The only option for you is to remove the tape drive from your server, open it, and manually eject the tape that is stuck. This is not easy to do. Maybe it would be better if you remove the tape drive from the server and take it to a repair centre.

I am pretty sure that the driver should be compatible with win08.

If you are using backup exec then try switching to use symantec drivers for your tape drive (setting withing BUEX)

If it is just the tape that cant be read or identified and was backed up using windows backup then try restoring the backup on a 2003 server and then copying the data across the network.

These drives are a right pain in the neck!

There is no easy way for an end user to remove the tapes and they are a terrible drive (certainly unless you are using a unix/linux server with all data on this server and not on another networked machine)

My suggestion would be to buy a new drive/library!

Failing that try sending the drive to www.tape-drive-repair.com who should be able to help - but these Mammoth drives are so awful they almost sent exabyte bust so i wouldnt invest too much money in keeping it going. Better to upgrade to an HP LTO4 desktop and cut your losses - Again these guys should be able to help with an upgrade

make sure your backup server is not preventing the media being removed

try rebooting your server, if the tape then can be ejected it is probably your backup software.

If the tape wont eject even after both server and drive have been rebooted it is probably faulty and needs to go for warranty exchange with HP

Remove the server connection from the library.

power on the library, follow the display in the front panel. The library will do some checks. Note where it fails. Press the select button, it will display the some code message. With the error code refer the manual.