problem fixed by installing latest Atape drivers released as of Aug
15th-ish. So a 1 hour problem took 1 week to resolve since IBM for some
reason just didn't want me to talk to the right person... fyi, I started
the testing a little bit before the 15th so I didn't get the veryvery
latest drivers. The difference in the drivers is like 6.1.8.0 verse
6.1.9.0 Can you say... very very unhappy with IBM support.. (and fyi
again, I used to work for IBM support a number of years ago, and looks like
things are still broken if not worse)
rick un
Richard Cowen
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Sent by: Subject: Re: Problem with 3494 /
3590 drives only partly seen
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08/31/01
08:29 AM
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Stor Manager"
Works here. (same environment, but direct FC attached)
Maybe your SAN DG needs to have its scsi rescanned. You could try delete
the drives under TSM, rmdev -dl under AIX, rescan at the SAN DG, cfgmgr,
define the drives under TSM, and try again?
# lscfg -vl rmt4
DEVICE LOCATION DESCRIPTION
rmt4 2A-08-01 IBM 3590 Tape Drive and Medium
Changer (FCP)
Manufacturer................IBM
Machine Type and Model......03590E1A
Serial Number...............0000000C3398
Device Specific.(FW)........E304
Loadable Microcode Level....A0B00E33
# mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -D -E
Type Mod Serial # Devnum Cuid Device VTS Library
003590 E1A 13-C3398 00C33980 1 0
003590 E1A 13-C3916 00C39160 2 0
# mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qV -V YZA456
Volume Data:
volume state.........00
logical volume.......No
volume class.........3590 1/2 inch cartridge tape
volume type..........HPCT 320m nominal length
volser...............YZA456
category.............012C
subsystem affinity...01 02 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
# mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -f /dev/rmt4 -m -V YZA456
# mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qM
YZA456 C33980
# mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -f /dev/rmt4 -d -V YZA456
# mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qM
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