[Veritas-bu] 6.5.2 to 6.5.3 post install tape drive issues

I have recently upgraded from 6.5.2 to 6.5.3 and am having some issues following the install.

My environment is: 1 master server at 6.5.3, 1 media server at 6.5.3, 3 media servers at 6.5.2. 2 libraries: 1 SAN attached DELL Power Vault 136T with 4 tape drives, and 1 StorageTek L20 with 2 drives SCSI attached to the master server.

Since the upgrade of the master I have been experiencing excessive 196 errors, which I rarely have seen prior to the upgrade. Investigation finds that in I go to the activity monitor (refresh all) and see all the drives showing busy in the topology map. In the active jobs panel I only see 2 of the 6 drive writing, with many jobs queued. If I go to device monitor I see that all drives show busy, but only 3 of them are ready. 1 on the SCSI attached, 2 on the SAN attached libraries. These results vary some ie: actual drives writing/actual drives ready (I hope that makes sense) A few days ago I used NBEMMCMD -deletealldevices -allrecords, hoping that rediscovering the devices would clear this up, same results.

If I check in robtest I see that only 3 of the drives have media in them, which does not reflect how many drives are writing. I’ve been watching this over several days to make sure it wasn’t my imagination….

Anyone else experienced this one?

Best Regards

Chris B.

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