Garin,
I have seen the SIM problem also on dismounts - if you get a resolution for
that, would you please post?

Thanks.

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> From:         Garin P. Walsh[SMTP:Garin_Walsh AT notes.sabre DOT com]
> Sent:         Monday, August 10, 1998 1:37 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
> Subject:      Re: IBM RS6000 F50 4-way - 3570 tape cleaning
>
> <<File: PIC21192.PCX>>
> Update on the - One drive always wants to be cleaned - problem. After
> three
> days of IBM messing with the drive the old problems are gone but replaced
> with new - thankfully the new ones are just annoying.
>
> Three things got changed:
>      - the Atape driver was way down level - it was 3.2.? and I updated to
> the latest (4.1.7.0) from 208.222.234.135:/devdrvr/AIX
>      - the firmware was 41BA on the two drives and was updated to 41F5.
> Apparently only field service can do this though I am not sure why since
> it
> was just an image loaded off of floppy.
> At this point, the cleaning problem went away but ADSM now kept marking
> the
> drive as off-line
>      - replaced the read/write brush assembly
> At this point the next tape that got loaded in that drive got snapped -
> what a joy.
>      -  call 1-888-426-6334 to see if they will replace it
>
> Now both drives in the library seem to work fine except for every time a
> tape is dismounted I get a SIM record in the error log - The field tech
> said that this is a problem they are working on resolving.
>
> 0F78A011   0810110498 T H rmt1           RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY
> DEVICE
> 0F78A011   0810103398 T H rmt2           RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY
> DEVICE
> 0F78A011   0810103098 T H rmt2           RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY
> DEVICE
> 0F78A011   0810101598 T H rmt2           RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY
> DEVICE
> 0F78A011   0810101298 T H rmt2           RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY
> DEVICE
> 0F78A011   0810100798 T H rmt2           RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY
> DEVICE
> 0F78A011   0810100498 T H rmt2           RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY
> DEVICE
> 0F78A011   0810090798 T H rmt2           RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY
> DEVICE
> 0F78A011   0810090498 T H rmt2           RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY
> DEVICE
> 0F78A011   0810081298 T H rmt2           RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY
> DEVICE
> 0F78A011   0810080998 T H rmt2           RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY
> DEVICE
> 0F78A011   0810075098 T H rmt1           RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY
> DEVICE
> 0F78A011   0810070798 T H rmt1           RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY
> DEVICE
> 0F78A011   0810070498 T H rmt1           RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY
> DEVICE
> 0F78A011   0810065598 T H rmt1           RECOVERY LOGIC INITIATED BY
> DEVICE
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Rory Nichols <rdnichols AT HORMEL DOT COM> on 08/04/98 02:56:38 PM
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc:
> Subject:  Re: IBM RS6000 F50 4-way - 3570 tape cleaning
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> We too have two 3570 tape subsystems (4 drives) on our R50.  We have had
> constant tape problems, the drives are always
> cleaning themselves, we have exchanged many tapes, lost data, etc...  We
> have stayed on the (b)leading edge of
> Atape driver and 3570 microcode (we are currently running microcode which
> was e-mailed directly from the developer.
> We are currently looking for a new tape solution.
>
>
>
>
>  (Embedded
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>  to file:      08/04/98 10:06 AM
>  PIC21192.PCX)
>
>
>
>
> Please respond to ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>
> To:   ADSM-L @ VM.MARIST.EDU
> cc:    (bcc: Rory D. Nichols/Corp/Hormel)
> Subject:  Re: IBM RS6000 F50 4-way
>
>
>
>
> We have a 4-way F50 w/ a 3575 L12 (2 3570 B type drives) and have been
> very
> happy so far - running AIX 4.2.1 with the latest TCP/IP and tty patches,
> ADSM 3.1.1.3, 332 MHz processors, 512 MB RAM, and 4 of the new 9.1 GB SCSI
> drives. 100+ clients (mix of NT, 95, VMS, and AIX). Very fast. The only
> problems encountered so far are that the system firmware code installed on
> the F50 when the machine shipped was not a new enough version to support
> the 332 processors - We had intermittent (every 2 weeks or so) crashes
> with
> a SRN that indicated an I/O planar failure. The tech that replaced the
> planar installed one with even an older firmware level - IBM was surprised
> it even booted - it didn't run long though. After the firmware update not
> another crash - now it has been almost 19 days of uptime and counting.
>
> One annoying thing so far about the tape drives though is that one of the
> two seems to want to be continuously cleaned. I was told that there was a
> firmware update for the drives to address a possible cause of this problem
> but I can't find anyone who knows about it - Anyone out there have a
> similar problem and a solution???
>
> Also, from newbie experience, I would want a minimum of three drives in
> the
> future. It seems that whenever there is a long running process that is
> using two of the drives, ADSM wants to do a database backup and that has
> precedence - I am currently evaluating point in time recovery and have the
> database backup trigger enabled - aborting the long running process.
>
>
>
>
>
> Karl Roessmann <roess AT AND.MPI-STUTTGART.MPG DOT DE> on 08/04/98 02:28:20 AM
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc:
> Subject:  IBM RS6000 F50 4-way
>
>
>
>
> we are planning to move our ADSM server to an
> IBM RS6000 F50 4-way.
> Anybody have good or bad experiences with ADSM
> on this hardware ?
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