OK was it the chicken or the egg that came first.
     Well, really I should first double check... is that 8200 a tape
     stacker unit ? ? ?
     adsm> q libr
     Library Name  Library  Device            Private   Scratch External
                   Type                       Category  Category  Manager
     -----------   -------- ----------------  --------  --------  -------
     INTLIB        MANUAL
     TDC3494LIB1   349X     /dev/lmcp1        300       301
     adsm> q drive

     Library Name  Drive Name  Device Type  Device     Element
     ------------  ---------   -----------  ---------- -------
     INTLIB        INTDRIVE    8MM          /dev/mt0
     TDC3494LIB1   TDCDR01     3590         /dev/rmt1
     TDC3494LIB1   TDCDR02     3590         /dev/rmt2
     TDC3494LIB1   TDCDR03     3590         /dev/rmt3
     TDC3494LIB1   TDCDR04     3590         /dev/rmt4

     adsm> q libr
     Library Name Library    Device            Private   Scratch   External
                  Type                         Category  Category  Manager
     -----------  ---------  ---------------   --------  --------  --------
     8MMLIB        SCSI        /dev/lb0
     adsm> q drive
     Library Name  Drive Name    Device Type  Device      Element
     ------------  ------------  -----------  ----------  -------
     8MMLIB        MT0           8MM          /dev/mt0    0

     so the first library above is using the internal 8mm tape drive on the
     server as a manual library... the lower one is using an exabyte 10
     tape stacker with its little internal 8mm tape drive as a scsi
     library... soooo having left 8mm far behind I'm not sure what the 8200
     is...
     BUT you have to have a library to define a drive, you DON'T have to
     have a drive to define a library... (I hope I said that right!)
     so here I guess it would be the chicken that came first...

     Hope this helps...
     later
         Dwight



     ____________________ Reply Separator ________________________________
     Subject: adsm newbie having problems with tape drives
     Author:  ADSM-L (ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU) at unix,mime
     Date:    9/3/97 2:30 PM


     Hello ADSMers,

     I'm testing the Solaris version of ADSM.  Scrounged together a Sparc
     10 with a few gig of disk, plus two Exabyte 8200 tape drives.
     Installed Solaris 2.5, with ADSM 2.6 from the WWW site, downloaded two
     weeks ago.

The tapes work fine from Solaris with tar and ufsdump.

When I try to define the manual library to ADSM, I get the error message...

* * * * * start of output
tarpon.arlut.utexas.edu# dsmadmc
ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager
Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 2, Release 1, Level 0.7
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 1996, All Rights Reserved.

Enter your user id:  admin
Enter your password:
ANS5100I Session established with server ADSM: SunOS

adsm> define drive manual8mm drive01 device=/dev/rmt/0
ANR8420E DEFINE DRIVE: An I/O error occurred while accessing drive DRIVE01.
ANS5102I Return code 3.

adsm>
* * * * * end of output

The 8200 drives are shown supported in the drive lists.  I'm at a loss
to get any further.  Any suggestions?  Time to check the IBM WWW
support site...

--steve kneuper
university of texas at austin
university of texas at austin
applied research labs