Windows 2008R2 and an Adaptec 29320LPE SCSI adapter connected to TS3310 and
LTO3 drives.



ANR8337I LTO volume 646AFAL3 mounted in drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5).

ANR8939E The adapter for tape drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5) cannot handle  the
block size needed to use the volume.

ANR8468I LTO volume 646AFAL3 dismounted from drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5) in
library TS3310.

ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 646AFAL3 - mount failed.







This replaced an older TSM server and right now any tapes that were created
on the old system give the ANR8939E message and won't mount. The ANR8939E
message refers to setting the MAXNUMSGLIST parameter for the HBA.I have
SCSI! I did find an entry on the ADSL-L archive from March 2009 saying that
the LPE card wouldn't work with TSM as it doesn't support the 256K buffer
used by TSM. New tapes created from beginning of tape work just fine on this
new system. Although it seems that the performance just isn't there
considering LTO3 drives.
(http://adsm.org/forum/showthread.php?17292-Restore-of-TSM-database-to-DR-se
rver-failing/page2)



Anyone using this adapter with TSM? This is one of those PCI-e cards. I'm
getting information on replacing the riser in my 3550 M2 server and going
back to the PCI-x 29320ALP adapter. That one I'm pretty confident with.



The ANR8939E says to set the MAXNUMSGLIST to 0x41.and that's what is
currently set in the registry for this LPE adapter. Tried the latest Adaptec
driver 7.0.0.12 and reverted back to the default Windows driver that gets
installed with Windows 2008. Same thing.



I have a PMR open with IBM Tivoli support, but they just want to close it
out as a hardware issue. I'm not getting any error/warning messages in the
eventlog for Windows or anything. Just the ANR8939E and can't get at my
data!



Any help is greatly appreciated!



Bill Boyer