I think that you don' t have to use SMIT to define the medium changer or the
drive.
You just have to install the device driver and then define  the medium
changer and the drive
within TSM (define library .... and define drive ....)

I have done it with TSM 4.1.3, AIX 4.3.3 and IBM 3583.

Regards,
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Ousmane Thiam
Ousmane Thiam
Ingénieur système Unix
Atos Ingénierie et intégration
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De:   Jacques Butcher [SMTP:jacques AT MAXTEC.CO DOT ZA]
> Date: lundi 14 mai 2001 07:42
> À:  ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Objet:        IBM 3581 on AIX Problem.
> 
> Please help
> 
> We've done an installation of the above-mentioned but are experiencing
> some
> problems.  First of all we are not sure if we should install the device
> driver or not.  If we type "cfgmgr" without the device driver being
> installed it asks for the driver.  After installing the driver we see the
> medium changer and drive (they both are available).  This was not the case
> before we loaded the driver. In none of the previous instances we were
> able
> to define either the medium changer nor the drive within "smit, devices,
> Tivoli ...".  we get the following error:
> Method error (/etc/methods/cfgadsmdd):
> 0514-051 Device to be configured does not match the physical device at
> specified connection location.
> cfgadsmdd[valid]: the device is not supported.
> cfgadsmdd[valid]: free dds
> cfgadsmdd[main]:error inquiry or building dds,rc=51
> We are 100% sure we are selecting the correct SCSI device as well as id
> (1,0 for medium changer and 3,0 for drive).
> 
> We've tried TSM version 4.0 and 4.1.3.  AIX is at level 4.3.3
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated since we are very desperate.
> 
> Thank you kindly.
> Jacques.