It was an IBM MagStar 3494A.

Kason Leung
Systems Programmer II
University of California
Office of the President
kason.leung AT ucop DOT edu



At 09:14 PM 12/8/2001 -0600, you wrote:

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:22:55 -0800, it was written:
>We upgraded from V3.7.3.6 to V4.2.1.7 yesterday, and TSM lost control of
>the tape drives afterwards. We got messages like yours, plus a whole bunch
>of other bizarre ones. Tivoli had us delete and redefine the drives in AIX
>and TSM, which didn't change anything. Eventually, we got a working TSM
>implementation by upgrading the tape and tape library drivers to the latest
>and greatest versions. We met the minimum standards for driver version
>levels, but what we had apparently wasn't enough for 4.2.

I'm curious; what kind of library was it?

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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)