Have you or the CE checked your firmware levels.  There is a new version
of FW that came out a week or so ago.  Make sure you check your drive sled
FW as well.  If it is down rev you have to update the FW for the whole
box.  It is not that painful a process from the we interface.

We are not running TSM with this box, but it is attached to a Solaris 9
server, and we had a few problems monthly we drive errors putting the box
to sleep, and the library web interface just leaving the room..  So far,
most of the problems have not come back.

bob

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:15:28AM -0600, Linda Seeba wrote:
> We have TSM 5.1 server running on Solaris 8 with a 3583 IBM LTO tape
> library that is scsi attached.  Every month or so we get tape drive errors
> that hang the library so bad that we have to reboot to recover. TSM and
> tapeutil can not see the drives until after the reboot. The IBM CE's
> verified that the hardware if not the problem. They are saying the  problem
> is somewhere between the library and the O/S.  Is anyone else running this
> setup and experiencing similiar problems?  We have the same setup with the
> exception of the tape drives being fibre or san attached and don't have
> these problems.
>
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