[...]
>I reloaded the /ADSM directory on Jesse James but for some reason ADSM   
>thought it was corrupted
>Then for the Next 6 hours we tried to get ADSM to recognize the 3590 tape   
>with the DB on it. finally we
> figured out I needed a new copy of the ATAPE driver. So we tried to get   it 
> off the Internet and IBM ftp servers.
>They were all down.
>another hour went by and someone at Sterling Forest found a copy in his   desk 
>drawer. it wasn't the most current
>but it was ok. We loaded that and still ADSM could not "See" the 3590   tape 
>drive. Our IBM Recovery service rep was
>examining other similar cases and she noticed that one group had done it   by 
>making the 3590 drive a manual device.
>So we tried that and hooray it sucked in the db and started restoring   itself.
[...]

I think i saw that situation once. It happens that the 3590 was
misconfigured. There is an option somewere on the 3590 that set it to work
either as a B01 or B11. If it's configured as B01 ADSM won't recognise it. I
think it was something like that.

You can check how it's configured on AIX using lscfg -v 

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Rui Malheiro,
Rui Malheiro,
6 Mil - Tecnologias de Informacao
URL: <http://www.6mil.pt/>