The IBMtape drivers that you installed in order to use the 3590's and 3494
include a utility called "tapeutil".  You'd have to look at the README or
other docs to find out where the util lives on AIX.  Also, you can get a
manual called "IBM SCSI Tape Drive, Medium Changer, and Library Device
Drivers. Installation and User's Guide", GC35-0154, from your friendly
IBM CE.  The latest version of IBMtape should be available on

        ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/

Also, there is a subdirectory, tools, that may be interesting as well.

Rich

At 08:43 AM 9/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
>We're at AIX 4.3.2, with 4 3590's in a 3494.  Occassionally, we'll get a FID1
>error on one of the drives, but for whatever reason, ADSM is unaware of it
and
>keeps on trying to use it (causing all sorts of strange problems).  Is
there an
>AIX command I can use to interrogate status of the drive(s) a la using
mtlib to
>interrogate status of the 3494?  It would be really nice if the command I'm
>seeking would return the actual FID1 error code!!
>
>

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