The only one available at the time was:  F26.  iMation was recommending
the "27" level. I got this level from our IBM "CE".





Jim Kirkman <jmk AT EMAIL.UNC DOT EDU>
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Zoltan,

What level of microcode did you upgrade to? We have an installation of 4
of
these drives scheduled in two weeks.

thanks,

Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote:

> Sounds a lot like what I was seeing when we got our "new to us" 3590E1A
> drives.
>
> The problem was the microcode level. It was way behind and caused all
> kinds of grief. 2/3 of our new tapes were unlabelable. The drive would
> load the tape and spin for ever until it timed out.
>
> Once the microcode/firmware was upgraded, problems went away. Went back
> and relabeled tapes that previously were unlabelable.
>
> Thomas Denier <Thomas.Denier AT MAIL.TJU DOT EDU>
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> 03/03/2003 03:30 PM
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>         Subject:        Errors on 3590 K tapes
>
> We are running a 4.2.3.2 TSM server under OS/390. We have four 3590 tape
> drives that were and are working well with 3590 J tapes (the ones with
> 20 GB capacity without compression). We are in the process of migrating
> our onsite storage pools to 3590 K tapes (the ones with 40 GB capacity
> without compression). So far we have had seven of the new tapes forced
> read-only because of I/O errors. We have one full 3590 K tape, and
> seventeen in 'FILLING' status that have not so far had any I/O errors.
> The errors have been spread across at least three of the tape drives.
> In most cases, there is an OS/390 message like the following:
>
> IOS071I 0C62,1D,ADSM, MISSING CHANNEL AND DEVICE END
>
> and a TSM message like the following:
>
> ANR5351E Error reading BlockID on device 0C62.
>
> Do 3590 K tapes typically suffer the kind of infant mortality rate
> we are seeing?

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Jim Kirkman
AIS - Systems
UNC-Chapel Hill
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