John -
Congrats on moving to a "real" operating system.
I don't have a 3581: someone who has one may be able to provide
specific insight, but as none has appeared yet, some general
guidance... It sounds like you somehow ended up with "SCSI" device
configurations instead of "LTO" type. Begin by doing 'lscfg -vl rmt\*'
and 'lsdev -l rmt\*' to see if the device types and status are as they
should be expected. If things look screwy, you can use rmdev to remove
the definitions and then do 'cfgmgr' again. A thing in between to
review is the adapter card, which needs to be of the proper type, with
a good firmware level, and proper configuration (check like 'lsattr -El
scsi2'). Don't proceed into TSM definitions until the device works
properly with OS commands, including tapeutil. Also use 'smit' to check
device configurations and possibly reconfigure.
Richard Sims
On Mar 28, 2005, at 7:43 PM, John E. Vincent wrote:
Hi all,
We're moving our Windows 2000 TSM server to an AIX 5.3 LPAR on a p520
(huzzah!).
I'm running into some issues however with the Atape driver on TSM
Version 5, Release 2, Level 2.0. The tape library is a 3623-2LX (aka.
3581 2U)
I've installed the atape driver and rebooted the LPAR. According to
everything I've read, I SHOULD have a /dev/smc0 device. I do not
however. What I have is a /dev/rmt0.smc. I've attempted to open this
with tapeutil and it kicks back an error. When I attempt to define a
library path in TSM to it, I get the following errors:
03/28/05 20:32:11 ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command:
DEFINE PATH
CORPTSM01 3581LIB SRCTYPE=SERVER
DESTTYPE=LIBRARY DEVICE
=/dev/rmt0.smc ONLINE=YES AUTODETECT=NO
(SESSION: 180)
03/28/05 20:32:32 ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/rmt0.smc with
error 6.
(SESSION: 180)
03/28/05 20:32:32 ANR8418E DEFINE PATH: An I/O error occurred while
accessi
ng library 3581LIB. (SESSION: 180)
From what I can read online, the rmt0.smc is for the some higher end
model libraries.
Can anyone provide any info that might tell me what in the hell I'm
doing wrong here?
Here's a list of the devices created by Atape. FYI the install of the
driver went fine and displayed no errors. Of course I get the following
when I run cfgmgr:
cfgmgr: 0514-621 WARNING: The following device packages are required
for
device support but are not currently installed.
devices.scsi
Configuration time: 1 seconds
But I understand that this is an error that can be ignored. I verified
that all the devices.scsi packages were installed.
Here's that device list:
# ls -al rmt*
crw-rw-rwT 1 root system 38, 0 Mar 28 20:27 rmt0
crw-rw-rwT 1 root system 38, 1 Mar 28 20:27 rmt0.1
crw-rw-rwT 1 root system 38, 9 Mar 28 20:27 rmt0.10
crw-rw-rwT 1 root system 38, 4 Mar 28 20:27 rmt0.2
crw-rw-rwT 1 root system 38, 8 Mar 28 20:27 rmt0.20
crw-rw-rwT 1 root system 38, 5 Mar 28 20:27 rmt0.3
crw-rw-rwT 1 root system 38, 0 Mar 28 20:27 rmt0.4
crw-rw-rwT 1 root system 38, 32 Mar 28 20:27 rmt0.40
crw-rw-rwT 1 root system 38, 33 Mar 28 20:27 rmt0.41
crw-rw-rwT 1 root system 38, 1 Mar 28 20:27 rmt0.5
crw-rw-rwT 1 root system 38, 4 Mar 28 20:27 rmt0.6
crw-rw-rwT 1 root system 38, 40 Mar 28 20:27 rmt0.60
crw-rw-rwT 1 root system 38, 5 Mar 28 20:27 rmt0.7
crw-rw-rwT 1 root system 38, 64 Mar 28 20:27 rmt0.null
crw-rw-rwT 1 root system 38, 2 Mar 28 20:27 rmt0.smc
Thanks.
John E. Vincent
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