Dear ADSMers: I am running ADSM Version 1, Release 1, level 0.8/1.8
on VM/ESA 1.2.2 (with Sterling vm:tape), and am backing up just one
sun/unix server so far, having begun doing so just last week.

Previously the cartridge mounts were all going to our 3480 drives,
but yesterday I made a change to the dsmmount exec so that the 3490E
drives would be used instead. Last night we got the error message:
ANR5306E Device not capable. (It had mounted a cartridge on the 3490E
drive that had been previously written on the 3480 drive but wasn't
yet 100% full.)

So I cancelled the session and went back to the previous version of
the dsmmount exec which calls for the 3480 drive. Now we get (from
the dsmmount exec) VMTDRV143T System not configured with 36 track E
3480 drives, and mount cancelled. I am puzzled why this didn't work
when it was working the past week.

Can anyone advise me on how to resolve this? Do I have to
reinitialize the database and start over to switch from 3480 to 3490E
drives? After failing with the 3490E drive, why couldn't I return to
the 3480 drive successfully? What should I do next to get a
successful backup?

Thanks, -Virginia
Virginia Adams
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
50 Wolf Road - Room 143,  Albany, NY 12233-2753
virginia.adams AT dec.mailnet.state.ny DOT us
(518) 457-7606