Hi steve, power of DLT7000 has been changed or not ?
and which firmware are in DLT7000 and in 9714 STK ?

Chris


--- Steven Bridge <ccaasub AT UCL.AC DOT UK> a icrit:
> It now appears to be my turn to have problems with a
> It now appears to be my turn to have problems with a
> StorageTek library. I've looked at the last few days
> messages
> to this list and it seems to be the craze of the
> moment.
>
> I'm not sure whether my problems have the same
> causes as I've
> seen described but I'd certainly be grateful for
> advice of any
> kind.
>
> We are running an AIX 4.3 server, ADSM 3.1.2.0.
> Our library has 2 DLT7000 drives. This morning we
> saw a write error
> on one of the drives and the activity log indicated
> that the tape
> in use was being made read-only. We have seen a few
> of these in the
> last couple of months and assumed that we had a few
> bad tapes.
> But then we started to see 'Unable to open device
> /dev/lb0 with error
> 5' followed by lots of similar messages, this time
> with error 46.
> We then saw an error from the other drive shortly
> before ADSM crashed
> with a segmentation fault - presumably not coded
> well enough to deal
> with this sequence of hardware errors.
>
> I recycled the power on the tape library and then
> restarted ADSM but it
> was unable to access /dev/lb0. So I tried rebooting
> the server( an F40 )
> but this hung while trying to configure the SCSI bus
> that the drives
> and library were on - only continuing when the
> library was powered off.
> I've tried eliminating all but the drives from the
> SCSI chain but
> results were inconsistent.
>
> Could these power supply problems on the drives
> described elsewhere be
> screwing up the scsi bus so that the library isn't
> recognised on boot up ?
> Or have people seen the scsi controller within the
> library go bad ?
>
>
>
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>  Steven Bridge     Systems Group, Information
> Systems, EISD
>                           University College London
>  email: s.bridge AT ucl.ac DOT uk                   tel:
> +44 (0)20 7679 2794
>

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