From: Jason A. Specland [mailto:jas2005 AT MED.CORNELL DOT EDU] 
> 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.

Have you tried mtlib to access and use the drive at the OS level? If you
can't use it at the OS level, TSM will never be able to use it.
 
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