Hi all 
        I am having a bit of an arm wrestle getting TSM to write to LTO2 drives 
in a 3582 library. Config as follows:

TSM 5.2.2.0 (also tried 5.2.0.0)
Solaris 5.9
Direct fibre attached to 2 drives.
Drive firmware 38D0 (latest on web)
IBMtape (latest on web dated 19 May)

Problem description:
When trying to label tape, library mounts tape in drive, rewinds tape, and 
unloads it without appearing to write to it. TSM reports I/O error with KEY, 
ASC and ASCQ all zero. TSM then reports that the volume has been labeled and 
even checks it in. q libv shows volser present as scratch. Backup attempt fails 
exactly the same as label libv attempt.
Drive entries in output of dmesg command seem to be correct. Have tried all 8 
/dev/rmt options eg. 0st,0stc, etc. All fail
Have also tried with and without the TSM Device Driver.
Even tried configuring drive as manual and manually load tape. Still fails.

The strange thing is that write and read back using TAR command works fine on 
both drives.

Hair being depleted.

Any ideas

Regards,

Steve Hartland
Lechabile Storage Solutions
0824645461