Hi,

I don't think that the members of this list are dedicated IBM'ers. Your
problem seems to be the drive and/or path definitions within (I)TSM. Can you
sent your config (AIX) and (I)TSM of the drive and libary definitions as
well as your (I)TSM server version to the list. Someone will tell you what
is wrong.

Gr,

Karel

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Jason A. Specland [mailto:jas2005 AT MED.CORNELL DOT EDU]
Verzonden: donderdag 24 april 2003 16:46
Aan: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Onderwerp: How do drives "initialize"?


For several weeks now, the drive that I've defined as DRIVE6 has not
been working.  When I start up TSM, I get the following message:

04/23/03   18:04:40  ANR8470W Initialization failure on drive DRIVE6 in
library
                       LIB1.

Now, I can already hear you all saying, "Check your hardware!"  But I
did.  With the vendor (the library is a Spectralogic Gator) I've
checked and replaced just about everything from the scsi card on the
AIX box to the tape drive itself, and the problem still persists.  I
can, for example, tar a file from the AIX box to the drive in question
without issues, but TSM won't use it.

Now, I certainly don't expect y'all to diagnose my non-IBM hardware
issues for me, but I was just wondering if anyone knows exactly what
it's doing when it "initializes" a drive, and how I can specifically
see what the failure is, so I can help my currently stumped hardware
vendor.

--
Jason A. Specland
Unix Administrator
Weill Cornell Medical College, Office of Academic Computing
jas2005 AT med.cornell DOT edu