Dan,

If you're using the IBM Atape driver (assume you are but I don't have recent
AIX
experience), you have a couple of utilities that may give more info. See the
doc at:

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Doc/IBM_ultrium_tape_IUG.pdf

starting p 55 for tapeutil and p 69 for diag. These should give you access
to the
drive error logs.

hth

D
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From: "Maine, Daniel" <DEM AT DELTAFAUCET DOT COM>
To: <NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 3:17 PM
Subject: [Networker] LTO Drive or Tape Problem


> Setup:
> 6 IBM LTO drives located in a STKL180
> We have 2 drives scsi attached to directly to the Networker server.
> 3 drives are attached to 3 different AIX boxes with one drive daisy
chained
> to another drive.
> Running 7.1 Networker
>
> Dilemma:
> With the Imation, Maxell, and EMC brand LTO tapes we are experiencing the
> following:
> *       Tapes showing full prematurely.
> *       Media surface error
> *       "Just hangs", goes into a loop.
>
> We have not had any problems with the Fuji brand tapes, but, we did not
> catch this in time and our manager is not letting us buy into the tapes
that
> are working without any problems.
>
> Does anyone have a "fix" for this issue or have experienced the same?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Dan Maine
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