Not sure how your drives are attached to the host but I have seen
similar when attached to a Cisco 9216 switch. 

Turned out to be a port problem on the switch in which I had to move to
another port on the switch.  I would suggest looking at ports
connections or cables.  

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
David E Ehresman
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 9:50 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: 3494 hardware help

I have a 3590 drive in a 3494 library san attached to an Aix box running
tsm. This is more of a 3494 problem than a tsm problem, but I do need
help.

tapeutil can talk to the drive. but mtlib says the 3494 library does not
see it.  That is if I do a " mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -DE" that drive is not
listed.  

On the 3494 console, in service mode, the availability menu shows both
the port and the drive are checked as being available.  However, under
the Utilities menu, the Reinitialize ports menu shows that port as
uninitialized.  If I tell it to reinitialize the port, it says it has
sent the command to the drive but the port continues to show as
uninitialized.

Any ideas as to the root of the problem or how to further diagnose the
problem.  The library and drives are on 3rd party maintenance and the ce
is useless.

David
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