Hi,
 
I noticed a while back that a few people were having problems with the 
IBM3584's and some flavours of Unix. The problems mainly surrounded the issue 
of LTO tapes getting stuck in the drive that is also the control path for the 
library.
 
I'm having the same problem now with both of my Solaris servers and my two 3584 
libraries. I have G2 drives at 2CKH firmware and when I perform an audit libr 
the tape that gets placed into drive 1 (element 257) always gets stuck and 
never ejects. I've also had scenarios where I have had to get an engineer in to 
remove the tape manually. I am going via SAN and am sharing the tape drives out 
to Solaris and Windows systems. Everything seems to be going to plan so far 
(apart from the performance on the Solaris SAN clients) and LAN-free backups 
are working perfectly. I have noticed the tapes to get stuck in the same drives 
when performing a backup stg from one library to another.
 
Anyone ever know what resolved this? I'm beginning to tear my hair out! I've 
just pulled down the latest IBMtape device drivers for Solaris (v4.0.8.0) but 
still no joy.
 
Anyone?


regards,

Rowan O'Donoghue
Technical Services Manager
Unitech Systems
Bracken Business Park
Bracken Road
Sandyford Industrial Estate
Dublin 18.

Tel: + 353 - 1 - 2942300
Fax: + 353 - 1 - 2942319
www.unitech-ie.com