Hi Christo,

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:15:42 +0200, Christo Heuer wrote:

>Hi Imre,
>
>Most likely problem is your tapeware application that grabs the
>drive before TSM can.
>Make sure the TSMSCSI device driver is started and all other
>applications that make use of this drive is stopped.

You are right, but TSM gave these error messages before I installed Tapeware. I 
only installed Tapeware later to check whether it is a hardware failure or not.

>TSM likes exclusive use of the drive/s.
>Did you setup a manual tape library?

Yes I did.

>
>Regards
>Christo Heuer

I think I'll try to downgrade TSM to version 4.2.2 (this is the first version 
of TSM supporting this tape drive).

Regards,
Imre

>Hi all,
>
>I'm new to the list, this is my first post.
>I've just installed a TSM server on an IBM xSeries machine. The machine
>is equipped with an HP DLT VS80 internal tape drive, but TSM will not
>write to tape. The error message I'm getting is (using TSM device
>driver):
>
>ANR8302E I/O error on drive DLT_VS80 (mt1.0.0.2) (OP=WRITE, Error
>Number=87, CC=207, KEY=05, ASC=24, ASCQ=00,
>SENSE=F0.00.05.00.00.00.01.16.00.00.00.00.24.00.00.CF.00.02.82.00.00.00.
>00.00.-
>15.00.9A.BB.A4.,
>Description=Device is not in a state capable of performing request).
>Refer to Appendix D in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action.
>
>I tried to use the operating system device driver (with GENERICTAPE
>device), the result was:
>
>ANR8328I 002: GENERICTAPE volume SAL01 mounted in drive DLT_VS80
>(mt1.0.0.2).
>ANR8311E An I/O error occurred while accessing drive DLT_VS80
>(mt1.0.0.2) for WRITE operation, errno = 1.
>
>The hardware setup is probably correct since the TapeWare application
>that came with the drive is capable of performing backup on this
>machine.
>Anybody has an idea what I can do with it?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Imre Kloknicer