Thanks Jurjen, that is good news. It looks like IBM is slowly fixing
this. We will look into re-enabling the Tape Alert messages once we get
to the higher microcode.

And to answer the other question, I think that most of the messages did
indeed occur on a drive that was a control port.

Thanks,

Tim Rushforth
City of Winnipeg

-----Original Message-----
From: Jurjen Oskam [mailto:jurjen AT STUPENDOUS DOT ORG] 
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 6:08 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: 3583 Meltdown

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:57:56PM -0600, Bill Kelly wrote:

> I heard, both Jurjen and I have problems open with IBM hardware
support
> (personally, I suspect a firmware problem, but obviously that's just
an
> uneducated guess).

I'm now running on 4AP0, a non-released version. The 'silly' TapeAlerts
are gone now, only real TapeAlerts seem to remain. The only thing I'm
still seeing is that some tapes keep producing "This tape
is not data-grade. Your data is at risk."-TapeAlerts.

But I don't intend to hijack the topic, which was about a 3583. Since
it's been almost 1,5 years since I last worked with one of those, I
don't think I can help there.

--
Jurjen Oskam