We just went through this and was told by IBM that serial connection to
the library is not supported for w2k. This is confirmed by the tape
drive, medium changer book. You need to use a lan connection, TR or
ethernet. We installed ethernet cards in the 3494 attached one in the
tsm server and it worked.

Ofer Nachom wrote:
>
> Hi There,
>
> I have installed TSM 4.1.2 on win/nt2k and I need to connect the TSM
> server to a 3494 tape library.I have 2 x 3590 tape drive on that library
> connected to the TSM server through a SCSI Diff interface and another
> serial cable connecting the library to the TSM server from the serial
> cable.
> I have installed the drivers to the nt2k with the drivers i have down
> loaded from the ibm ftp site index.storsys.ibm.com/devdrv/win2000.
> the driver ware installed successfully. I checked the ntutils and the
> open close device test was successful.
> the next thing that I need to do is to define the library from the tsm
> command line.
> ( I defined the dsmserv.opt with enablelibrary3494 = yes )
> and try to execute the define library command from tsm command line
>
> define library my3494 libtype=scsi device= x x x x ......
>
> but I only had the drives mt0.0.X in the NT OS, I couldn't find the
> library lb0.0.0.1 or something in the os .
>
> so what do i need to define in the define library from the tsm.
>
> is the serial port is the device ?
>
> Best Regards
> Ofer Nachom
> Triple C.

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