Hi,

we have a new Plasmon G24 library with two UDO1 drives (no barcode reader)
attached (SCSI) to a TSM 5.2.4.5 (64bit) on a p630 running AIX 5.2 ML6.
According to the TSM support pages this is a (well?) supported
configuration.

I observed two things which make me smell trouble:

1.
After defining library, drives and paths (see below) the drives
are listed as of drive type "REMOVABLEFILE".
From my experience with IBM MOs I remember that they appeared
as device type "OPTICAL".
What is the expected benaviour?

2.
When I try two label a UDO medium (again, details below), I get an ANR8807W:
ANR8807W Could not write label U00000 on the volume in drive UDO0 (/dev/op0) of
library PLAS01 because volume is already labelled ROOT.
This is a brand new medium!
Trying to overwrite the label fails miserably:

ANR9999D pvr.c(5796): ThreadId<51> writeLabel vector not valid for drive UDO0.
Callchain of previous message: 0x0000000100017d94 outDiagf <- 0x00000001000ecd84 
PvrWriteLabel <- 0x000000010022a3cc
ReadWriteLabel <- 0x000000010022b4bc SingleEEVolumeLabel <- 0x000000010022c8f0 
EELabelVolume <- 0x0000000100241598
ScsiLabelVolume <- 0x000000010024bd00 MmsLtsLabelVolume <- 0x000000010012db08 
LabelThread <- 0x0000000100008078 StartThread
<- 0x09000000002ef460 _pthread_body <-
ANR8806E Could not write volume label U00000 on the tape in library PLAS01.

Any hints for me???

TIA,

Andreas

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More technical details:
1.
def libr plas01 libt=scsi
def path kandel plas01 srctype=server desttype=library -
  device=/dev/lb0

def dr plas01 udo0 element=6001 online=yes
def dr plas01 udo1 element=6002 online=yes

def path kandel udo0 srctype=server desttype=drive -
  library=plas01 device=/dev/op0
def path kandel udo1 srctype=server desttype=drive -
  library=plas01 device=/dev/op1

def devcl UDO01 libr=plas01 devt=worm format=drive

q dr
Library Name     Drive Name       Device Type     On-Line
------------     ------------     -----------     -------------------
[...]
PLAS01           UDO0             REMOVABLEF-     Yes
                                   ILE
PLAS01           UDO1             REMOVABLEF-     Yes
                                   ILE

2.
label libvol plas01 search=bulk checkin=private labels=prompt
repl 4
repl 5 LABEL=U00000

ANR8807W Could not write label U00000 on the volume in drive UDO0 (/dev/op0) of
library PLAS01 because volume is already labelled ROOT.

label libvol plas01 search=bulk checkin=private labels=prompt OVERWRITE=YES
repl 9
repl 10 LABEL=U00000