No issues with a library having SCSI and Fiber drivers.

TSM has the issues you describe below.

Jeff Bach

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [SMTP:GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 2:51 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      3590 fiber/scsi
>
> Does anyone run their 3494 with a combination of scsi and fiber drives? If
> so do you see any issues with this? Tivoli tells me there are no issues. I
> have 4 SCSI and 2 newly installed fiber drives. I see there are times TSM
> reports a dismount failure, always on only those 2 drives. Sometimes the
> tape is still in the drive, yet TSM does not make the drive unavailable.
> The
> mounts seem to take much longer to accomplish on the fiber drives.
> Sometimes
> processes kick off and have mounts reserved waiting for the completion of
> mounting the tape but it just doesn't happen.
>
> Like this one, still waiting........and it's the only thing happening.
> ANR8379I Mount point in device class 3590CLASS is waiting for the volume
> mount to complete, status: WAITING FOR VOLUME.
>
>        2 Database Backup      Full backup: 0 pages of 3745593 backed up.
>
>                                Waiting for mount of scratch volume (920
>
>                                seconds).
>
> Geoff Gill
> TSM Administrator
> NT Systems Support Engineer
> SAIC
> E-Mail:   gillg AT saic DOT com
> Phone:  (858) 826-4062
> Pager:   (888) 997-9614


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