You must set this option higher than 0x41 (I prefer 0xFF) on *any* machine
accessing tape over SAN - be it TSM server, TSM Storage Agent, or any
other product.
Afterwards you must perform the backup *again* - some times with low
maximumsglist setting the data is reported to be written but is not
completely. Thus your backup might be not restoreable.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






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        Subject:        maximumsglist - lanfree


Hi

Well the quest for lan free backups continues....

I got past my initial problems by upgrading storage agent to 5.1.5.4 (same
level as server)

Yesterday I managed to run an image backup lan free, 150Gb in 1hr 15
minutes
so was quite happy with that.  However when I went to restore it 5 minutes
later it failed and the server actlog gave me

10/29/2003 16:39:39   ANR8939E The adapter for tape drive DRIVE2WWPK
(mt1.0.0.5)
                                 cannot handle  the block size needed to
use
the volume.

I then tried another image backup and it failed with the same error.
During
the time of the image backup working then stopping working nothing had
changed.

I believe the above error is to do with the registry entry for
maximumsglist.  On the storage agent client I have had maximumsglist set
to
FF for a while.

My question is do I need to set the same registry key on the TSM Server
itself?
If not then what else can be causing this

TIA

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