You likely have a marginal SCSI cabling problem, missing terminator, tape
driver or something like this.  This is probably not a TSM issue.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-----Original Message-----
From: Mitch Sako [mailto:msako AT CADENCE DOT COM]
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:39 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Tape Requests Never Mounting


I have a new 5.1.5 test server running on Linux that puts up mount requests
for migrations to a set of 4mm manual drives and the server is never
acknowledging that the tape is mounted and therefore never starts the
migration.  I noticed that when I was doing manual labeling that the first
few requests were not being serviced but they magically started
acknowledging the tape in the drive and the labeling process continued as
normal.

I've checked the device class, path, drive and all of the other relavent
things and they all look clean.  Proof of this to me is that the labels were
put on the tapes just fine.  Now, when I test migration the drives never
acknowledge the tapes.

I'm thinking that there is some switch or setting that I need to toggle to
make this work.

Any ideas?

-ms