[[Veritas-bu] Drives down NBU 4.5 MP2]

Hi Katherine,

May be you can run a ioscan and see the results, by the way, what OS are you
on?



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"Greenberg, Katherine A" <GreenbergKA AT aetna DOT com> wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone has ever seen this before....
> 
> I have a library with 8 fibre (SAN) attached tape drives (IBM 3590E1A). The
> drives are fine and working and using robtest I can load and unload them.
mt
> commands come back and say, yeah! there's a tape in there. However, when I
> try to run backups, the drives get DOWN'ED with a messages in
> /var/adm/messages of "Unable to Open Drive".  And it's not only ONE drive,
> it just goes down the Index list, attempts a mount, fails and downs the
> drive.
> 
> Now the above would give me pause if this were happening on ALL the servers
> in the environment. however, this is only happening on the Master. So, for
> all intents and purposes, backups are completing successfully b/c there are
> other boxes clients can use to back them up. The only thing that is
> consistently failing are catalog backups...
> 
> Any thoughts, help, etc. are appreciated.
> 
> Regards!
> Kate
> 
> Katherine Greenberg
> Systems Engineer
> Mid-Range Storage Management
> Aetna, Inc.
> bensonka AT aetna DOT com
> 860.636.6724
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