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Re: 3590 driver for IBM S70

1999-05-27 14:14:51
Subject: Re: 3590 driver for IBM S70
From: "Purdon, James" <james_purdon AT MERCK DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:14:51 -0400
Hi,

lslpp -L shows the Atape driver to be pesent and committed.

However, errpt shows scsi bus errors, probable causes:

CABLE
CABLE TERMINATOR
DEVICE
ADAPTER

Guess its diag time...

Jim



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> From:         rbs AT bu DOT edu[SMTP:rbs AT bu DOT edu]
> Sent:         Thursday, May 27, 1999 1:57 PM
> To:   james_purdon AT merck DOT com
> Subject:      3590 driver for IBM S70
>
> Good info.  It looks like the driver install was no good.
> Did it seem to give good results?  Does an 'lslpp -L <DriverName>'
> show the software there?  Does a 'cfgmgr' command either cause the
> drives to be configured or yield an error?
> You may want to probe via SMIT and see what it thinks of those.
>
> Also check the drives (their control panels) to assure that they got
> the SCSI IDs they should have; are not in any funny mode; are cabled
> to the host SCSI adapter securely; etc.  You may want to use the AIX
> 'diag' command to try accessing the drives.
>
> A drivers diskette should have come with the drives with the proper
> level of code on it.  If not, your CE should find out why not.
> I think your best best is to pursue the driver install and SMIT,
> looking for any errors.  Check 'errpt', particularly after running
> 'cfgmgr'.
>               Richard
>
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