Is firrmware for tape drive or SAN switch ? now these drives are with 5xx2 
firmware.

Thanks
Rag

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Stuart Whitby <swhitby AT DATAPROTECTORS.CO DOT UK> 

> I've seen this before. The drive shows up absolutely fine through its 
> ethernet 
> interface, but nothing through fibre, requires hard or soft reset to recover. 
> It's a bug specific to IBM fibre attached LTO drives (I *think* I debugged 
> this 
> on LTO II, but could have been LTO). From what I understand IBM refused to 
> admit to this bug (the drive reports no problems, ergo there can't be any 
> problems with the drive) but it's fixed in later firmware versions. 
> 
> HTH, 
> 
> Stuart. 
> 
> ________________________________ 
> 
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion on behalf of Raghava Karu 
> Sent: Sun 20-Aug-06 23:12 
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU 
> Subject: [Networker] Tape drives going to unavailable state 
> 
> 
> 
> We are getting too many unload retry messages with IBM LTO II FC drives. mt 
> -f 
> /dev/rmt/*cbn status showing unknown, but the same device repsonding once 
> it's 
> power'd off/on. Is this a bug in 7.2 ? or did I miss anything in 
> configuration? 
> 
> Our env is in LAN free/DDS with 8 storage nodes. OS : Solaris 9 
> 
> Thanks in advance 
> Raghava 
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