We had a similiar problem here also. We found out that our fifth and sixth
3590 drives were exceeding the recommended scsi cable length with all the
daisy chains. We added another scsi card and all is well.

-
Tom Walker
Tom Walker
Technical Support Analyst

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Boyer [mailto:wboyer AT PTD DOT NET]
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 10:41 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: 3494 phantom ejections
>
>
> We had a problem with a newly installed 3494. One of the 6
> drives showed up
> DOA, and the replacement drive was configured incorrectly.
> Whenever TSM
> called for a tape mount, the drive would fail reading the tape and the
> library would eject the tape all by itself. There were messages in the
> library manager log about not being able to read the label of
> the tape.
> There may be a problem with a drive. You may want to have the
> CE check out
> the logs on the LM. Once the CE configured the 3590
> correctly, the problem
> went away. TSM didn't know anything about those tapes being
> ejected. We did
> see some I/O errors in the TSM activity log.
>
> Bill Boyer
> DSS, Inc.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On
> Behalf Of
> Steve Harris
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:29 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: 3494 phantom ejections
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have a 3494 that normally runs almost unattended.
> Yesterday I had to
> attend to it because of a tape stuck in the drive, but also
> discovered 8
> carts in the IO port.
>
> These were all valid, in use ADSM tapes and the library was
> showing their
> status as manually removed.
>
> Any ideas how they could have gotten into this state? Is
> there a 3494 log I
> can look at?
>
> I opened and closed the IO port and checked them all in
> again, and all now
> seems correct.
>
> ADSM is 3.1.2.50
> AIX is 4.3.2
>
> Steve Harris
> AIX and ADSM (TSM is in testing!) Admin
> Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia
>

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