Hi,
  As said before hand they are control paths on the drives in the library.  
You'll need the atape driver and drivers for the lto drives themselves (i 
remember clearly installing new drivers when we went to lto2).  should have 
come on a cd with the library / drives.  or you can down load them from ibm.
  If you look over the atape manual you can set up failover for the smc devices 
which is one reason to set up multple control paths ..


>>> GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM 06/08/06 12:54PM >>>
I'm bringing up a remote AIX system with a 3584. Seems as though IBM left it
in an unusable state and I'm trying to figure out why. What I originally saw
was the below output minus the 3584 info. I ran cfgmgr and now have the
below output. What is odd to me is that there are 3 3584's showing up.



On the system I have here I only have the one. The defined drives I've seen
before too. In fact on the system I have here, if I reboot it a few of the
drives show up as defined instead of available. That doesn't happen with the
3490's on the other system. I still have one in that state and haven't been
able to bring it back as of yet. These 3 are similar and I'm at a loss as to
why IBM would leave an installation in a state like this.



Can anyone shed some light on the library or tape drive issue?



# lsdev -Cc tape

rmt0 Available 40-60-00-5,0 SCSI 4mm Tape Drive

rmt1 Available 14-08-02     Other FC SCSI Tape Drive

rmt2 Available 17-08-01     Other FC SCSI Tape Drive

rmt3 Available 54-08-01     Other FC SCSI Tape Drive

rmt4 Defined   1A-08-02     Other FC SCSI Tape Drive

rmt5 Defined   21-08-01     Other FC SCSI Tape Drive

rmt6 Defined   5A-08-01     Other FC SCSI Tape Drive

smc0 Available 14-08-02     IBM 3584 Library Medium Changer (FCP)

smc1 Available 17-08-01     IBM 3584 Library Medium Changer (FCP)

smc2 Available 54-08-01     IBM 3584 Library Medium Changer (FCP)





Thanks,



Geoff Gill

TSM Administrator

PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator

SAIC M/S-G1b

(858)826-4062

Email:  <mailto:geoffrey.l.gill AT saic DOT com> geoffrey.l.gill AT saic DOT com


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