We had those types of problems, and they conveniently disappeared when we
upgraded the DLT drive microcode (not the robot microcode). Once we got up
to V55 level microcode, life got a lot better.
> ----------
> From: Dan Giles[SMTP:Dan_Giles AT manulife DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 2:50 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
> Subject: Re: Problems with ADSM and DLT7000.
>
> Hi Ken,
> I have a similar config here: AIX 4.1.5 running the enhanced ADSM server
> 2.1.12
> from Open Microsystems Inc. 9710 library with DLT7000's. If you are
> running 2.1
> on were AIX, then it should be the Enhanced version. All the drivers were
> developed by OMI (so that IS your third party driver!).
>
> Anyways, my problem is that I have about 1/2 dozen tapes that are missed
> up.
> There were written to correctly, but when ADSM went to read them to back
> them up
> I/O errors started appearing. So far, hardware checks okay and we now
> suspect an
> OMI driver problem. I was hoping that moving to V3, where the new drivers
> are
> integrated into ADSM, would fix our problem.
>
> Anyone have similar problems that conveniently disappeared when they moved
> to
> V3?
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Kenneth Hansen <clean77 AT HOTMAIL DOT COM> on 03/26/98 11:17 AM GMT
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc: (bcc: ADSM)
> Subject: Problems with ADSM and DLT7000.
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
> We have big problems with getting ADSM v2 and v3(Aix 4.2 and NT40)
> to work together with DLT 7000 drives(Installed on a STK 9710 Robot).
> Backup and Restore usually worke fine, but when you start to
> copy tapes adsm loses track of where the tape is,
> and it looks like there is an time out problem
> between adsm an dlt7000.
> The microcode of the dlt7000 is Level 70 (I belive this is the newest)
> and the microcode on the STK9710 is 1.8.01(Ithink this allso is the
> newest versjon).
> Do anyone else have this problem, and do you know how to fix it.
> Allso do anyone know of an thid party driver for ADSM, may be it
> works bether then the original ADSM driver???
> Thank.
>
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