A couple of things:
1. Delete all your path and drive definitions and rebuild them.
2. Make sure that your HBA drivers are up-to-date.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
Of
> Andy Huebner
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:57 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] ANR8963E & ANR1791W
> 
> We started seeing this error after we upgrade to 5.4.2.0
> ANR8963E Unable to find path to match the serial number defined for
> drive XXXXXX in library IBM3494
> This error causes the path to go off-line.  We update the path with
> AUTODETECT=YES and it fixes the path every time.  But the error will
> happen again and again... but to a random drive.
> 
> IBM asked us to turn on SAN Discovery to resolve the error which has
> generated this error:
> ANR1791W HBAAPI wrapper library /usr/lib/libHBAAPI.a(shr_64.o) failed
to
> load or is missing.
> 
> We are running AIX 5.3 and the correct version of the API is loaded.
> This whole thing is starting to drive us nuts with paths dropping
every
> day and with IBM not having a solution yet.
> 
> Does anyone have a solution to these errors?  We are stuck and IBM is
> working on it.
> 
> AIX 5.3
> TSM 5.4.2.0
> IBM3494
> 3590-E drives
> A very static tape SAN
> 
> Andy Huebner
> 
> 
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