On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 07:41:16AM -0400, Richard Sims wrote:

> >...ANR8779E Unable to open drive /dev/rmt2, error number=46.
> Did you pursue the drive problem?  The AIX errno is saying that
> the drive is not ready.

All three drives work fine and don't report any errors, *except*
when TSM tries to mount 'scratch tape' 659ACP in a drive. When that
happens (doesn't matter in which drive TSM wants to mount 659ACP),
the above error is reported. Other (working) scratch tapes work fine,
in all drives.

This leads me to the conclusion that there is a problem with 659ACP,
and not a drive.

When investigating the suspected problem with 659ACP, I found the
"659ACP is both a scratch tape and defined in storage pool"-thingy. Since
there weren't any other errors logged (I/O errors in particular), I
concluded that 659ACP doesn't have a physical problem.

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Jurjen Oskam

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