We've had problems with mysterious tapes on similar hardware, but HP-UX
server. Library is HP 20/700 which is a rebadged L700. Symptoms were TSM
being almost hung... could not start new admin sessions, had to kill it &
restart. we would see two dsmserv processes, which we think is normal, but
usually the second one comes and goes so fast that you rarely see it....
when we were finally able to look at the activity log, we found I/O errors
for drives that had sense codes of all FFFF, and *unkown* errors... tracing
back to mount commands we always foun the same tape mounted in the drive
that had the I/O errors.... removed the tape, and everything was fine.
But, we still don't know what was wron with the tapes... don't know if it
is a library isuue or a HP-UX issue.
Robin Sharpe
Berlex Labs
Karel Bos
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We had this on this TSM server version. Please upgrade.
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Chuck Lam [mailto:chuck_lam AT YAHOO DOT COM]
Verzonden: maandag 4 november 2002 22:46
Aan: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Onderwerp: Problem tape
TSM 4.1.4 running on AIX 4.3.3
Hi,
Attached to this server is a StorageTek L700 tape
library, after running flawlessly for over a year. I
have begun seeing problem tapes popping up here and
there. There is this one tape of which I could not
mount it for anything, the TSM just gave it up by
saying "Mount Request denied", but 'q vol' showed
nothing was wrong with this tape.
Have any ones encountered problem like this, and any
suggestions to fix it, other than phsically removing
it from within the tape library?
Thank you.
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