I would also encourage folks to get 8.4.6.0 of Atape. The first entry in
the "readme" says it all:

8.4.6.0   Fix excessice retry when configuring smc device for long boot
problem
           Add mtlib utility for 3494 and SCSI Medium Changer Libraries

We were seeing 30-minute boot times until we installed this version !




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On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 07:53:16PM +0200, Uwe Schreiber wrote:

> did you look at
>
> service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/358x/    ???

Did *you* look? 38D0 is the latest there, and he already has that version.


Anyway, I also was on 38D0 and Atape 8.4.1.0. When one LTO2-FC drive had
problems, it took down the AIX 5.2 machine it was attached to with it. It
crashed hard, multiple times.

Support told me that it was a problem with 38D0 in combination with Atape
8.4.1.0. Atape 8.4.1.5 was released to circumvent this, but the CE also
placed 42D0 on the drives and 3484 on the library (a 3584).

--
Jurjen Oskam

"Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored
volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not need fault-tolerance." -
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