04-25-2016
A couple of thoughts/questions:
1) Have you tried to restart your system, and make sure the tape is not in the tape drive at boot.
2) Try a second tape (to rule out a bad piece of media)
Have you tried to do this multiple times? The existing job access the tape is from two days ago.
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