> I don't have 3590-E drives, but I'm fixing to upgrade Atape and atldd so just
> out of curiosity I looked at the fixlist files. The entry for level 4.3.9 
> (which
> I've pasted and highlighted here) looks like it might have something to do 
> with
> your problem.
>  4.3.9.0   Increase timeouts for 3590E and 3570 extended media
>
> Since you are already at a higher level than this, perhaps this fix didn't
> completely fix the problem and IBM/Tivoli needs to take another look.
>
> The error I am getting is always on this operation, which looks to be a
> mount request:
>
>         ANR8824E I/O Error on library TAPELIB2; request some-number for
> operation 004C6D31

I do believe that the increased timeout values are for operations like
rewind and forward space, and would have nothing to do with accessing the
Library and mount requests.

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