Hi Joshua,

I would say based on the message that your problem is "device or address
does not exist" for rmt0 ... You say that rmt0 exists according to lsdev
but AIX doesn't seem to think it does. I suspect that some process has the
mt0 device open causing the problem.

I would then run "lsof" against the devices to determine if some process
has the devices open.

I would then run "rmdev -dl mt0" and "rmdev -dl rmt0" and comment out tsm
from the inittab.... reboot. After reboot do rmt0 and mt0 get recreated ???
I would then test rmt0 using "tar" initially.

After that I would open a support call.

regards Tonyr


"Joshua S. Bassi" <jbassi AT GLORYWORKS DOT COM> on 30/03/2000 17:01:14

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>

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cc:    (bcc: Tony Rynan/Australia/IBM)
Subject:  MKSYSB Failure After TSM Install




All,

I ran the command mksysb -i -X /dev/rmt0 and received
the following messages:

Creating information file (/image.data) for rootvg.....
Creating tape boot image./dev/rmt0.1: There is a request
to a device or address that does not exist.
0512-044 mksysb: Cannot access device /dev/rmt0.1.
tctl retension failed with return code 2.

The box is a 4.3.3 7248-43P with an external IBM
7206-005 DDS-2 4GB tape drive.  And yes I have verified
that the special files rmt0 and rmt0.1 are present
in the dev dir.

This is a brand new machine EXCEPT that it has a 3.7.2.0
TSM server on it and I am also using the same tape drive
for local TSM backups.  So in order to use the 4mm tape
drive I had to go into smit and define a TSM tape drive on
top of the rmt drive.  Of course I have already tried
deleting the entire TSM drive including the special files
to no avail.  And I have even delete all the definitions
ran cfgmgr and also rebooted, but nothing seems to allow
me to get a good mksysb.

Any ideas?


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Joshua S. Bassi
Joshua S. Bassi
Senior Technical Consultant
Symatrix Technology, Inc.
jbassi AT gloryworks DOT com