Hi Bill!
You say you are running the latest firmware on the drives, did you see that
there is a new version released on September 7th.?
You can find it at ftp://ftp.storsys.ibm.com/358x/3583/4772L2S.zip
I don't know what has been fixed in this release however. For some reason
IBM always delivers a fixlist file with device drivers (like Atape)
releases, but not for firmware releases...
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Boyer [mailto:bill.boyer AT VERIZON DOT NET]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 15:21
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: seek problems on LTO2 tapes


A continuation on a problem I posted earlier..we're not up, but it appears
that when TSM issues the seek to a location on the tape, It's now taking
almost 30-minutes for that to happen. In the mean time, the library/channel
seems to hang.

Question is....if the library can't do the seek, will it rewind the tape and
read the data until the point of the seek? This is becomming very painful
and has only started happening last friday. Right now we have a complete new
Windows2003 server, latest Ultrium drivers, TSM 5.2.3.0, a new 3583 library
and drives..latest firmware on library and drives.. Everything except the
tapes is completely new. Is there anything on the tape that would cause seek
issues?

Bill Boyer
"An Optimist is just a pessimist with no job experience."  - Scott Adams


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