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Re: DLT Clean problem

2001-05-02 12:00:40
Subject: Re: DLT Clean problem
From: David Longo <David.Longo AT HEALTH-FIRST DOT ORG>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 11:39:49 -0400
I believe with the STK 9740 you are supposed autoclean on the 9740 itself and 
NOT throught *SM.   In general libraries that have autoclean capability should 
have it enabled and not use *SM for cleaning.


David B. Longo
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Health First, Inc.
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>>> justino.costa AT EDINFOR.EDP DOT PT 05/02/01 10:41AM >>>
Hi all,

I was wondering if some of you has had the following problem:

--What we have:
*) Storagetek 9740 with V1?????????????????
*) Storagetek 9740 with V1?????????????????
*) 5 DLT7000 Drives with V115
*) Sun Solaris 2.6 runing TSM V4.1.2.0
*) Autoclean is disabled on the library
*) TSM as "cleaning frequency" on all drives configure to "asneeded".

--What happens:
1) When a drive turns on the "Cleaning Required" led, TSM doesn't receive
1) When a drive turns on the "Cleaning Required" led, TSM doesn't receive
any indication (or does not report it on the actlog ?) and therefore, it
doesn't clean the drive.

2) In fact, TSM continues to read and/or write to the same tape or to
another tape loaded afterwards, although the drives's clean led remains on.

3) Then, after a while, the drive reachs a point where it cannot read or
write anymore to a tape. When this happens, TSM gives the following error:

2001-04-29 19:20:05
ANR8302E I/O error on drive DRIVE_0 (/dev/rmt/7mt)  (OP=READ, CC=422,
KEY=03, ASC=80, ASCQ=01,
SENSE=F0.00.03.00.00.00.00.16.00.00.8D.28.80.01.00.00.00.00.81.03.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.,
Description=An undetermined error has occurred).  Refer to Appendix D in
the 'Messages' manual for recommended action.

Which also appears on solaris syslog:
  "unix: WARNING: mt@0,0: scsi_cmd=8,errno=110,cc=422,sense=f0  0  3  0  0
0  0 16  0  0 8d 28 80  1  0  0  0  0 81  3 ^ "

4) TSM now cleans the drive but only after  the ANR8302E message:

2001-04-29 19:20:05      ANR8914I Drive DRIVE_0 (/dev/rmt/7mt) in library
STK9740_2 needs to be cleaned.
2001-04-29 19:23:37      ANR8906I Cleaning drive DRIVE_0 (/dev/rmt/7mt) in
library STK9740_2.
2001-04-29 19:34:13      ANR8908I CLEAN DRIVE for drive DRIVE_0
(/dev/rmt/7mt) in library STK9740_2 completed successfully.


--The problem:
Due to the ANR8302E, any operation that was using that tape/drive fails. If
Due to the ANR8302E, any operation that was using that tape/drive fails. If
the operation that failed had been, for example, a reclamation process,
there shouldn't be a problem because we can allways restart a reclamation
process.

However, if the operation that abort had been, for example, a TDPOracle
backup of a huge Database, then this is a problem because the backup will
fail and it will have to start all over again.

There is also another problem. Due to the several clean erros, some tapes
are now unreadable and we already lost some. I managed to recover some with
"restore volume" command but, there were other that I couldn't recover
because the readings kept failing, precisely when they were being copied to
a  copy pool.


--The simple question:
Why doesn't TSM cleans the drive right after the drive's clean led turns ON
Why doesn't TSM cleans the drive right after the drive's clean led turns ON
?


Thank you very much,
Justino Miguel Costa
Edinfor - Unix Team
justino.costa AT edinfor.edp DOT pt 



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