>sorry for the slow reply. very busy.
>
>tapeutil i think is a utility and is part of the atape driver set. this =
>utility can be used to test and diagnose the functionality of your =
>library and tapedrives from the operating system and works independant =
>of TSM which can be very useful.=20

Thanks for the response.

The StorageTek 9714 is not an IBM tape library so I don't think the
Atape package containing 'tapeutil' is available to me.

I couldn't resolve the problem so have had to revert to my AIX 4.3.3
machine which can communicate with the library fine.

I have raised a PMR with IBM. Let's hope it can be resolved before
the end of the year when AIX 4.3.3 is no longer supported !

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 Steven Bridge     Systems Group, Information Systems, EISD
                          University College London