Hi,

I receive the following error when attempting to inventory any tape in
drive 4 of our tape library:

cannot find slot `-99999' in operation slots list

Never seen this one before. Yes, there is a tape in the slot. Doesn't
matter which slot I select, though. Always same error when using this
device.

The affected device is /dev/nst4. I see the following in the devices
window:

rd=storage_node_server_name:/dev/nst5(J)LTO Ultr (unmounted) read open
error, Invalid argument

We're running 6.1.1 on Solaris 2.8 on primary server. The affected
library is a Storagetek L80 with 79 available slots, 4 LTO drives. It's
attached to a storage node server also running 6.1.1 but under Linux.
There are no tapes in the drives. I power cycled the tape library and
rebooted the storage node server. When I run /etc/LGTOuscsi/inquire,
everything shows up just fine, but again, same problem when attempting
to inventory anything in that device.  It's been like this now for
several days.

Any ideas of what to do?

This tape library has never been happy with the nsrjb -H reset command.
Doing this just hangs it.

Thanks.

George

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