I'm with Allen.  In 10 years of TSM work with both SCSI and FC Libraries and 
drives, I've never had to restart TSM on AIX to add drives and paths one by one.

I also don't mess with TSM Devices since TSM 4.2 on AIX either.  I just run 
cfgmgr, then define the drives and paths.

I have used an Exabyte Library (well, that's using the term "used" loosely, it 
stunk), and several 3584's.  Something isn't getting adjusted right in the TSM 
database, or it's having a hard time picking up the device serial number and/or 
WWN (at least that's what I would suspect).


See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Allen S. Rout
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:07 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Re: Drive and Path Definition

On 01/18/2012 06:28 PM, David Bronder wrote:
> Richard Rhodes wrote:
>>
>>> In the past we've never had to restart TSM to add a new drive.  As
>>> long as the drive was discovered and available at the AIX layer, we
>>> could define the new drive.  Has this changed with v6.2.x?
>
> Seriously?  Is this behavior due to changes in TSM 6.x, or has it
> always been this way for SCSI-style (smcX) libraries?
>
> I've never had this issue with my 3494 library and any TSM version
> from ADSM 2.1 through TSM 5.5.
>

"Me too"; 3494 and 3584 both, I've not needed to restart TSM to begin
accessing new devices.

- Allen S. Rout
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