I hope this fixed it for you.  You may want to open a problem record just to
be sure there was a fix included in 5.1.6 for LINUX tape drivers.

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


-----Original Message-----
From: Mitch Sako [mailto:msako AT CADENCE DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:58 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Tape Requests Never Mounting


I can't rule out a H/W problem, but...I did upgrade to 5.1.6 and the problem
went away.  How solid is the tsmscsi stuff in 5.1.5 for Linux?

Mitch

"Seay, Paul" wrote:

> 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