Hello Trevor,

we successfully upgraded atldd to version 3.2.1.0 on AIX 4.2 .
We removed the lmcpx devices with
  rmdev -l lmcpx -d
and defined them again via smit. We didn't change the ibmatl.conf
file.
We have also rebooted the node but I think this is not needed.

Regards
Frank Hoehnel
blhoehnf AT de.ibm DOT com


> Date:    Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:58:11 +1100
> From:    Trevor Foley <Trevor.Foley AT BANKERSTRUST.COM DOT AU>
> Subject: atldd 3.2.1.0

> G'day,

> First some configuration information:

>        3494 library with 4 x 3590 tape drives
>        AIX 4.2.1 host
>        Library connected to host via LAN connection

> It was recommended to us by an IBM engineer to 'install the latest versions
> of atldd and atape'. Of course no-one in IBM seems to be able to tell us
> explicitly which versions are the latest. However, I copied the latest (by
> date) kits from /devdrvr/AIX on index.storsys.ibm.com, exluding those that
> have 'eng' in the name (apparently they aren't formally released versions).
> The versions were Atape 4.1.7.0 and atldd 3.2.1.0.

> I installed them both and the installation completed without error. However,
> I am unable to get the lmcpd process running. In one of the log files (I
> think that it was /var/adm/ras/lmcpd_atl.log but it has since been
> overwritten) complaining about an invalid format of the configuration > file.
> I assume that the file involved is /etc/ibmatl.conf. Ours looks like this:

>        atlc    aupozs674       aupozx673
>        atlg    aupozs672       aupozx673

> There are a lot of errors in the AIX system error log but only two types:

>        Error parsing initialzation file: No such file or directory, Exiting
>        Bad path or unknown IP address of library: atlc, No such file or
> directory

> I went back to atldd version 3.1.2.0 and all worked just fine. Upgraded
> again and the same failure occured. Is anyone else running atldd 3.2.1.0? Is
>there are change in format and/or location of the ibmatl.conf file?

> regards,

> Trevor