Yep, sounds just like us.

However, we might have a clue (or a resolution, later today).

IBM called and said to be expecting some cables today. These are cables to
connect the 3590 drives to the ATL LM.  This kinda missed this when they
installed the drives ????????????????

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Zoltan Forray
Zoltan Forray
Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center
e-mail: zforray AT vcu DOT edu  -  voice: 804-828-4807




Koen Willems <koen_willems AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
07/30/2002 08:54 AM
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        Subject:        Re: Adventures sharing/connecting 3494 ATL to TSM AIX 
system


Dear Zoltan,

I am hooking up an 3494 with 3 scsi drives to tsm 5.1 and w2k.

Eventough I see mij 3590 drives on my scsi bus I cant define the drives
because of an I/O error.

Does this sound familliar to you ?

Best Regards,

Koen Willems.


>From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <zforray AT VCU DOT EDU>
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Adventures sharing/connecting 3494 ATL to TSM AIX system
>Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:06:02 -0400
>
>We are having an adventure trying to configure a 3494 ATL and 3590-FC
>drives to be used by TSM on an AIX server.  Never having done this kind
of
>configuration before, we are having lots of issues and questions.
>
>Existing configuration is a 3494 ATL with 6-3490 and 8-3590 ESCON
attached
>drives, up until now only used by our OS/390 system.
>
>We have installed 3-3590E1A drives with FC connections to an existing
SAN.
>  This part seems to be working since the SAN configuration tools see the
>drives, just fine. At first they wouldn't work since IBM left the devices
>with no addresses/offline. Fixed that. However we still have a call into
>IBM to see what else they might have left configured incorrectly.
>
>IBM finally got the ethernet connection/card working so we can PING and
>talk to the Library Manager. LM has been configured with the IP (private)
>address and name of the TSM AIX box/server (running latest, V5.1).
>
>Ran through all the processes to configure the LM and 3590 drives
>(/dev/lmcp0 and /dev/rmt1-3).
>
>MTLIB -qS says there are 17 devices (OS390 connected 14 + 3-FC). Yet we
>can't access the tape drives since we can't seem to configure the 3590
>drives as being part of the ATL (any suggestions would be helpful !!).
>
>Also, we seem to have some issues with the CATEGORY ?  This too is
>unfamiliar to us since we have never had to deal with this. Earlier
>attempts at getting the TSM AIX server to mount/initialize a tape we
>inserted into the ATL issued:
>
>         ANR8846E Volume 070000 is assigned to a category that does not
>belong to library 3494ATL.
>
>So, some of my questions:
>
>1.   How does one control the CATEGORY assigned to tapes we stick into
the
>ATL.  As for the OS390 side, CA-1 won't let those tapes be used by it
>since it is outside of the controlled ranged. Also, since OS390 does
>recognize the tape as being inserted, I planned to just manually update
>the SMS info for these tapes to mark them as all being PRIVATE.  Anything
>wrong with this idea ?
>
>I took the default Private (300) and Scratch (301) categories when
>defining the ATL.
>
>2.  Do I need to LABEL all of the tapes I insert for these drives to use
?
>
>
>3.  Do I still have to go through the CHECKIN process eventhough it is in
>an ATL ?
>
>4.  Is there something on the Library Manager that needs to be configured
>to control access to the 3590-FC tapes (these are the only "K" type
drives
>we have and thus should be the only devices that use the "K" tapes).
>
>
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Zoltan Forray
>Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center
>e-mail: zforray AT vcu DOT edu  -  voice: 804-828-4807




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