I tried using the command
IBMtapeutil -f /dev/IBMchanger0 inventory >myfile.txt
as outlined in chapter 32 of
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Doc/IBM_ultrium_tape_IUG.pdf

and got
....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7
 ************Beginning of data**************
Reading element status...

Robot Address 1
  Robot State .................... Normal
  ASC/ASCQ ....................... 0000
  Media Present .................. No
  Source Element Address Valid ... No
  Media Inverted ................. No

Volume Tag,  Length 36

            0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F   0123456789ABCDEF
    0000 - 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020  [                ]
    0010 - 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020  [                ]
    0020 - 0000 0000                                [....            ]


Import/Export Station Address 16
  Import/Export State ............ Abnormal
  ASC/ASCQ ....................... 8300
  Media Present .................. Yes
  Import Enabled ................. Yes
  Export Enabled ................. Yes
  Robot Access Allowed ........... Yes
  Source Element Address Valid ... No
  Media Inverted ................. No

Volume Tag,  Length 36

            0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F   0123456789ABCDEF
    0000 - 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020  [                ]
    0010 - 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020  [                ]
    0020 - 0000 0000                                [....            ]


Drive Address 256
  Drive State .................... Normal
  ASC/ASCQ ....................... 0000
  Media Present .................. No
  Robot Access Allowed ........... Yes
  Source Element Address Valid ... No
  Media Inverted ................. No
  Same Bus as Medium Changer ..... Yes
  SCSI Bus Address ............... 1
  Logical Unit Number Valid ...... No

Volume Tag,  Length 36

            0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F   0123456789ABCDEF
    0000 - 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020  [                ]
    0010 - 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020  [                ]
    0020 - 0000 0000                                [....            ]


Drive Address 257
  Drive State .................... Normal
  ASC/ASCQ ....................... 0000
  Media Present .................. No
  Robot Access Allowed ........... Yes
  Source Element Address Valid ... No
  Media Inverted ................. No
  Same Bus as Medium Changer ..... Yes
  SCSI Bus Address ............... 2
  Logical Unit Number Valid ...... No

Volume Tag,  Length 36

            0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F   0123456789ABCDEF
    0000 - 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020  [                ]
    0010 - 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020  [                ]
    0020 - 0000 0000                                [....            ]

...
Rob Berendt
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I think I might have left off the meat of the attempt to add the drive
ANR8420E DEFINE PATH: An I/O error occurred while accessing drive
IBMTAPE0.

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[ADSM-L] TSM - Can't define drives to library for copy storage pool.






Setting up a new TSM server on a Suse Linux lpar on an i5.
Working on the copy storage pool.

Can't seem to define the drives.

Library name is TAPMLB01, type SCSI.  It is an IBM 3582-L23 fiber
attached.
For the "Device special name" I used a putty client and found
/dev/IBMchanger0.
Then it went into define drives.  I selected add drive.  For drive name I
picked IBMtape0.  For Device special name I put in /dev/IBMtape0.  Again
my putty clients lists several items under /dev, like:
IBMchanger0
IBMtape
IBMtape0
IBMtape0n
IBMtape1
IBMtape1n
IBMtape2
IBMtape2n
IBMtape3
IBMtape3n
IBMtape4
IBMtape4n
IBMtape5
IBMtape5n
IBMtape6
IBMtape6n

Funny thing is we had this half configured once.  And a checkin started
shifting around tapes.  But we had issues and the whole thing got
corrupted simply by doing a stop of the linux server without doing a halt
of the TSM server first and that was before our first database backup so
we get the privilege of starting over.

Rob Berendt
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Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com