Walter,
Thank you yet again. I did manage to get ADSM to use the Wangdat 3200 as a
GENERICTAPE device. I was hoping to get the thing working as 4MMTAPE
device. The problem would seem to be (as you suggested) that ADSM does not
directly support the 3200. No mention of the 3200 in the device support
list. Thank you for your help Walter.
Regards, Jerome

At 10:05 AM 12/1/99 +0000, you wrote:

     Jerome,

     You say that there are no devices hogging the drive, does this include
     any generic NT tape device support ? Otherwise disable any and all
     generic NT tape device support (by the way does any (generic) NT tape
     device support see your tape drive ?).

     This may sound obvious, but did you check to see if the version ADSM
     you are using supports the Wangdat 3200 ? (see the device support list
     on the Tivoli site).

     I'm running out of answers, still got one though. If ADSM won't
     directly support the tape drive thru it's own device support, you can
     try to connect the drive to ADSM by defining the drive as a
     GENERICTAPE device type (see NT Admin guide pg 114), first make sure
     the NT device support is loaded. You can see which devices are visible
     to ADSM by opening the ADSM server utilities and viewing the contents
     of device information.


     regards Walter Ridderhof

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Subject: Re: Help! Wangdat 3200 ...
Author:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> at INET-1
Date:    11/30/99 4:47 PM


Thanks for your response Walter. Actually, the ADSMscsi device driver will
not start. According to the NT Event Log, it is refusing to start because
of a "device not found" situation. According to the docs., this means that
the Wangdat is already being used by another driver. But I do NOT have any
other drivers loaded for this device. I have reinstalled ADSM 3 or 4 times
now. Still the same result.... a complete mystery to me..

At 02:23 PM 11/30/99 +0000, you wrote:
>      The 'device not found' is this as in the 'ADSMSCSI device' was not
>      found (i.e the device driver could not be loaded by NT) or the
>      'Wangdat device' was not found ? If it's the first then somewere along
>      the road ADSM installation went haywire and the device didn't get
>      installed properly. This happened to me once on an ADSM NT server
>      upgrade (3.1.1? -> 3.2.1?). This was a test environment, after
>      re-installing the server software everything worked fine.
>
>      regards Walter Ridderhof.
>
>
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>Subject: Help! Wangdat 3200 ...
>Author:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> at INET-1
>Date:    11/28/99 2:47 AM
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>Second time around.. help! I'm trying to use a Wangdat 3200 with ADSM, but
>whenever I start the ADSMscsi driver I get a "device not found" message.
>The device (tape) is there! So what am I doing wrong?
>Jerome