Hi all,

 

This situation has never happened to me before so I'm a little unsure of
the steps and order to fix it. Running AIX 5.3 with a TSM instance at
5.5.1. LTO drives are zoned in through a switch to the TSM server, 2
drives to each fibre card. Support for the IBM drives was not renewed
with IBM so it looks like this new group has no idea how to 'fix' drives
and would rather replace them, something that 'never' happened with IBM
so I'm not quite sure exactly what needs to be done to get this drive
back online. 

 

I know the references in TSM need to be updated so I have removed the
path and drive. When adding them back the path failed so it seems like I
need to get AIX to see the new drive and not sure if I also need to do
anything on the switch. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I typically
have no issues so it's hard to gain and keep knowledge when 98% of the
time I'm "watching" the system instead of "doing something" with it.
Since I don't have a test system built similarly I can't play around and
create documents to refer to when the 'what did I do when that happened'
scenario comes up.

 

Thanks for any advice you can provide.

 

Geoff Gill 
TSM Administrator 
PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator 
SAIC M/S-B1P 
(858)826-4062 (office)

(858)412-9883 (blackberry)
Email: geoffrey.l.gill AT saic DOT com