BE inventory on tape drive LTO 3

Hi.

I have a Dell tape drive Ultrium LTO 3. When I run the inventory from BE, it tries to run and then the job status says "communication stalled". After a while the inventory job fails with the following error message "The job failed with the following error: The Backup Exec job engine system service is not responding".

What is strange is the the backup jobs to tape runs successfully.

Please assist.

Thanks

Selvum Moodley