Ty:

Where is the robotic control for the P3000?

I have seen drives go down when there was a problem 
with the communication to the robotic control (either 
not configured properly, or an RS232/SCSI problem).

other than that, as others have suggested, check the 
syslog for ltid errors.

David Chapa

Quoting Ty Young <tyyyoung2 AT home DOT com>:

> With the help of readers on this mailing list, I've 
been able to do quite a
> bit to get my HP box up and talking not only to its 
attached ATL P3000
> library but also to NetBackup 3.4 (Data Center.)  
However...
>
> I'm running into a problem where the drives seem 
to 'down themselves' after
> a period of time.  Not sure why.  From an OS 
standpoint, the eight drives
> and the robot all exist and are fine (indeed, I was 
able to create .tar
> files on each drive successfully, as well as 
using 'mc -p' commands to move
> tapes around within the jukebox.)
>
> Has anyone else run into this behavior?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -ty
>
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