Paul,

Thanks for the tip. We figured it out and here's how:

Note that I'm including explicit details because we never found these in
any Redbook
or manual...and much of this came from our experience with IBMtape's
tapeutil program
running on Sun.

List the drives:
C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\Storageagent\tsmdlst

Then map the drives:

0.) Load a tape into every drive in your jukebox.
1.) On your NT client go to and envoke:
        C:\Program Files\IBM Corporation\IBM Ultrium device
drivers\5.0.2.4\ntutil
and within this program:
2.) #1 set special device name
3.) Tape0 (Or the name of your device)
4.) #20 Open
5.) #1 RW
6.) #33 unload
7.) #21 close

-Bern
At 12:26 AM 12/15/2001 -0500, Seay, Paul wrote:
At 12:26 AM 12/15/2001 -0500, Seay, Paul wrote:

I can tell you right now that the QLOGIC card is going to have problems on
the W2K server.  Every time you do a fabric update a RSCN is sent out and
QLogic will kill the drives in W2K and require a reboot to get them back.
The fix for this problem is an unreleased driver 8.1.3 that is supposed to
go GA in a couple of weeks.

This is standard stuff.  Follow the instructions in the book otherwise.  I
can probably dig up all the commands that you will need to issue.  I can
tell you this is really slick stuff based on our experiences.  So far, we
have only used AIX and Solaris Storage Agents, but we will be doing W2K next
week on exactly what you are doing except it is an AIX TSM server.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bern Ruelas [mailto:bern AT CADENCE DOT COM]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 9:40 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Drive Mapping for W2K over SAN to LTO with Sun TSM server


Hello,

Has anyone ever mapped a Storage Agent running TDP for Exchange from a
Win2k client to an LTO tape device on a Sun Solaris (5.7) TSM server?

Here's the setup:

Server:                 SAN:                    Client:

Sun E420                        SAN Data Gateway        Win2K
TSM 4.2.1.7                        2108-G07             Storage Agent
4.2.1.7
Emulex LP8000                                   TDP for Exchange 2.2
   Fiber Channel cards  ==>     McData Switch           BA Client 4.2.1
IBM 3584 LTO                                            Ultrium Device
Driver 5.0.2.4
IBM 2580 Ultrium Tape Drives                            QLogic QLA2200 PCI
Fiber Adapter 8.0.9.6

Any clues would help.

Thanks,

-Bern Ruelas
Sr. Systems Engineer - Storage
Cadence Design Systems
2655 Seely Ave.
San Jose, CA  95134
(408) 428-5246