You may need firmware upgrade, for the extended-length tapes;  also, (check
README files) you may need Atape 6.x to match with the firmware change...
just a couple ideas.

I think Label Libv is a single-thread/process command;  if you want to use
more than one drive, try issuing the command twice(?)... assuming you are
using barcodes for -labelsource, of course.

Don France

Technical Architect - Unix Engineering/P.A.C.E.
San Jose, CA
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 -----Original Message-----
From:   Diana Noble [mailto:djk AT UMICH DOT EDU]
Sent:   Thursday, November 30, 2000 5:26 PM
To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject:        3590k's

I have two questions.  First, I running adsm 3.1.2.58 with atape 5.0.2.0
and atldd 4.0.7.  I tried to initialize the 3590 extended tapes and label
them and receive only IO errors.  Initialized some J's as well and they
initialized fine.  Anyone seen this or have a similar problem?

ANR0985I Process 328853 for LABEL LIBVOLUME running in the BACKROUND
completed with the completion state FAILURE at 18:34:31
ANR9999D mmsflag.c(4547):  Operation 004c6D32 failed with Command Reject.
ANR8301E I/O error on library TAPELIB (op=004C6D32, sense=00.00.00.27)
ANR8310E An I/O error occurred while accessing library TAPELIB.

One thing I noticed during initializing and labelling the tapes is that the
3494 only uses one tape drive at a time.  Only one tape is loaded at a
time.  Am I missing some parameter or something that will tell it use two
drives?

Thank You.