Tom,

we have two 3494s one with old B-drives, the other one with new C-drives.
When doing "export node" from B to C it is always the same that it is
saying "mount delayed" and is repairing the VCR on every tape he mounts. We
have exactly the same levels you mentioned on all components execpt AIX.
There we are at 4.3.

Matthias





Tom Tann{s <tom.tannas AT USIT.UIO DOT NO> am 12.09.99 18:05:52

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Anyone else done the drive-upgrade/seen similar behavior?

After upgrading our 4 3590's, the server issues a

ANR8820W Repairing VCR data .....

each time an old 3590-tape is mounted for reading.

The data on the tape is read OK, but slow, since the VCR-data seems to be
gone..

I have a feeling this has to do with the microcode of the drives.

Our drives now has microcode A0B00E26, which our CE told me was the
latest one.

The 3.1.2.40-README say I must have D01C_502, and a third level was
mentioned in a posting here a few weeks ago.

Some time in the past, the drive-microcodes were available at the ftp-site
(index.storsys.ibm.com) under the 3590-directory.
Now there is a pointer to service2.boulder.ibm.com there, but I couln't
find anyhing here either...

Does anyone know which microcode is needed/is the latest, and if it's
available for downloading somewhere?
Or if there is a bug somwhere else that causes the ANR8820W when reading
old 128-track-tapes?

My server is 3.1.2.40 (AIX 4.2.0)
Atape is 4.4.0.0
atldd is 4.0.1.0


                 Tom.