On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Purdon, James wrote:

// Help! I am being plagued by a host of ANR8820Ws (Repairing VCR data for
// tapes on IBM 3590 drives).
//
// I hate these - the "repair" operation takes too long and doesn't always work
// (I've been waiting 10 minutes now for a repair to complete!).  And each
// incident seems to dump about four messages into the error log, claiming
// everything from the tape drive is broken (but the CEs say the drives pass
// all diagnostics) to that the drive is dirty (we clean each drive daily and
// our mount count isn't particularly high).
//

I'm getting a similar condition only with a different error.
We have recently configured our new 3494 Lib. w/ 2 3590 drives using the
F/W Differential SCSI connect to an RS/6000 (AIX 4.2.1)
I'm getting constant "RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY DEVICE" errors showing
up in the errpt on only one of the two tape drives.  Our CE has run
every diagnostic known to IBM and found nothing. The word from IBM is
"don't worry about it.  These errors aren't serious".  Any error
indicating recovery sounds serious to me... And what worries me the most
is that only one drive is giving the errors (likely eliminating a firmware
error or the like)  ADSM doesn't think there is anything wrong with the
drive, and hasn't shown any errors.  So I guess this isn't really helpful,
but I suppose it's possible the errors are in some way related in their
cause....
This help jog anyone's brain for ideas?

TIA


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Best regards,
Best regards,
Brian

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