Author: Michael Abel <Michael.Abel AT RESNOVA DOT DE>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 20:30:35 +0100
Hi! As I mentioned earlier our NT attached 3570 causes a lot of trouble for us. The most recent error we encountered is the message "Drive1 Attention: Tension Dropped." displayed on the LCD of the li
Hi Try the UPDATE DRIVE ONLINE=No to avoid use and then get a CE in to look at it. Meanwhile check you MIGPROCESS settings (and other settings related to tape Drives) on your pools to ensure that you
Hi, We also had simular problems. Could you tell me what microcode yoou use in the MagStar 3570 ? We use: EC C70548 LINK D1I4_1CF with kind regards, / met vriendelijke groeten, Johan Pol Boerhaavelaa
Author: Pat Mills <Pat_Mills AT SONYMUSIC DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:22:46 -0800
We and IBM have been working on a 3570 problem for about 3 weeks now. Of course the first culprit is always microcode. The level we are now running on 2 3570s is an unreleased version. EC C70552 LINK
Well it was on a 3490e but I had a case where: say I have drives 1, 2, 3, & 4. Tapes would occasionally self destruct. (become unreadable) what was happening was drive 3 could read anything created a
Author: Michael Abel <Michael.Abel AT RESNOVA DOT DE>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 21:08:49 +0100
Chris, since most of our ADSM clients are mobile systems which are on the road during the week we could afford of shutting down ADSM and the library today. The CE is scheduled for tomorrow so we'll s
Author: Donald Burdette <dburdett AT IX.NETCOM DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 14:02:30 -0800
We had this problem about two months ago. After 4-5 months of working without any problems, we kept getting the same error that you have. Service techs spent lots of time looking at the drive and rep
Michael, Please let me know how you go. Today, one of our 3570 units got a jammed drive and we lost the backups again for another night. We had to power the system down to get into it so we could get
Author: "Garin P. Walsh" <Garin_Walsh AT NOTES.SABRE DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 07:32:39 -0500
It might be a long shot but I have had it occur now twice in the last month..... Check to see if the read/write tab is still on all the tapes. What was happening to me, and it sounds similar, was tha
Author: Mathew Warren <MWarren AT TANDB.CO DOT UK>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:12:44 +0000
Hello, Hmm. Thanks for this, I just noticed one of the R/W tabs had popped off of one of our tapes and wondered what would happen if I tried to use it... Matthew. It might be a long shot but I have h
Author: Peter Gathercole <peter.gathercole AT VIRGIN DOT NET>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 23:34:04 +0000
Yes, I have already reported it (at 2.1.5.18 on AIX) and was told that the fix would be "sometime in version 3" according to IBM. Don't know for certain what the APAR number was, however. Peter Gathe