For several weeks now, the drive that I've defined as DRIVE6 has not
been working.  When I start up TSM, I get the following message:

04/23/03   18:04:40  ANR8470W Initialization failure on drive DRIVE6 in
library
                      LIB1.

Now, I can already hear you all saying, "Check your hardware!"  But I
did.  With the vendor (the library is a Spectralogic Gator) I've
checked and replaced just about everything from the scsi card on the
AIX box to the tape drive itself, and the problem still persists.  I
can, for example, tar a file from the AIX box to the drive in question
without issues, but TSM won't use it.

Now, I certainly don't expect y'all to diagnose my non-IBM hardware
issues for me, but I was just wondering if anyone knows exactly what
it's doing when it "initializes" a drive, and how I can specifically
see what the failure is, so I can help my currently stumped hardware
vendor.

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Jason A. Specland
Unix Administrator
Weill Cornell Medical College, Office of Academic Computing
jas2005 AT med.cornell DOT edu