Hey all,

I'm wondering if anyone has ever seen this before....

I have a library with 8 fibre (SAN) attached tape drives (IBM 3590E1A). The
drives are fine and working and using robtest I can load and unload them. mt
commands come back and say, yeah! there's a tape in there. However, when I
try to run backups, the drives get DOWN'ED with a messages in
/var/adm/messages of "Unable to Open Drive".  And it's not only ONE drive,
it just goes down the Index list, attempts a mount, fails and downs the
drive.

Now the above would give me pause if this were happening on ALL the servers
in the environment. however, this is only happening on the Master. So, for
all intents and purposes, backups are completing successfully b/c there are
other boxes clients can use to back them up. The only thing that is
consistently failing are catalog backups...

Any thoughts, help, etc. are appreciated.

Regards!
Kate

Katherine Greenberg
Systems Engineer
Mid-Range Storage Management
Aetna, Inc.
bensonka AT aetna DOT com
860.636.6724


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