Are you getting I/O errors?
If so, make sure you have current firmware levels on your drives (V72).
What's the full message text for "aggragates are degrading"?  I haven't
seen this one before.

..Paul
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At 12:09 PM 10/7/98 -0700, you wrote:
At 12:09 PM 10/7/98 -0700, you wrote:
>We have a major problem here.  We are running ADSM V3.1.0 on an AIX server
>attached to an STK9710 library using DLT7000 tapes.  We keep having problems
>with tapes not being mounted even tho there are drives available (we have 6)
>and then they are marked 'unavailable' and I have to check this out every
>day and put them back in 'read/write' status.  Also, after this starts to
>occur I get messages that 'aggragates are degrading' and that I need to do
>an Audit.  Today my aggragates weren't just degraded, they were disabled.
>STK says that their system is working fine.  IBM says that their's is also
>ok.  Heeeellllppppp!!!
>
>Sandye J. Jackson
>