Problem solved after 3 days of investigation and 5 minutes of work.

For our 3466/NSM with AIX and a 7337, devices can get 'mis-defined'
when upgrading from ADSM 3.1.1.5 to ADSM 3.1.2.0.

Fix was to simply delete the offending drives definition and
then redefine it in (both) Aix and ADSM.   ADSM support walked me through
it in 30 minutes.

I'll bet this is in the README.  If it ain't, then it should be!!!

Q. Does "maintained by IBM" include reading the README file!!????!!?!?!?

GRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrr     ... joe.f.


On Wed, 18 Nov 98 09:27:48 PST Joseph A Faracchio said:
>
>We have a 3466/NSM with a 7337 changer.  (AIX & DLTs)
>
>The ADSM Server was abend'ng on a web client error so we took IBM's
>recommendation and had them upgrade our box from 3.1.1.5 to 3.1.2.0.
>
>But now we are having tape drive errors on the first drive
>and when our CE does a TAR there's no problem and then he
>swaps the first and second drives and the problem stays with
>the first drive and does not follow the hardware.
>
>Has anyone heard or seen this error with AIX/ADSM 3.1.1.2?
>
>thanks ... joe.f.