Be some time since I worked with AIX media servers but are pretty sure
you need to change the block size to variable in smitty.

Regards
Michael

2007/11/9, Brandon Zermeno <Brandon.Zermeno AT pulte DOT com>:
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>
>
> I have been getting random error 85's since adding AIX media servers. I have
> an i2000 with 16 LTO3 drives that are all shared between 5 Window media
> server and 4 AIX Media servers. The Master is 6.0 MP5 on Windows. All the
> tapes are shared from the scratch pool, meaning if a tape was written by a
> windows media server it goes right back into the scratch pool once its
> expired and can now be grabbed by an AIX server.
>
> Due to the randomness of the error 85's is there a chance that the AIX
> servers are writing to the tapes in a different header size or block size
> that is causing the servers to freak out?
>
>  Veritas was unable to help with this problem (surprise).
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Brandon
>
> Senior Hoop Jumper
>
> Junior SAN Monkey
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