Kathleen -
We are running J's and K's and the IO errors occur on both types of tapes.
At 11:10 AM 1/30/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Are you running with K cartridges as well? We've been seeing these errors
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>"Michael, Monte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01/30/2001 09:43:28 AM
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> Subject Re: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions
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>Diane,
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>What level of microcode are you currently running on your 3590 tape drives.
>We are running 3590E1A tape drives with a microcode level of D22E. We have
>been on this level of code for quite some time with no errors. Our 3590's
>are also house within a 3494.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Diana Noble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 8:15 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Problems after 4.1 Upgrade and Resolutions
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>I had posted some questions last month regarding problems we encountered
>after our upgrade to TSM 4.1 and thought I would pass along what we
>found. We are using AIX 4.3, 3590E's and a 3494.
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>When issuing the dsmadmc command we received "ANS1033E An invalid TCP/IP
>host name was specified". Resolution was to edit
>/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsm.sys and add a line for TCPServeraddress
>which stated the tsm server name in full. This was apparently not
>necessary under 3.1.
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>We could not label K tapes. We had problems with this under 3.1, but it
>turned out IBM needed to flick a switch on the drives. We upgraded the
>same day. We would receive "ANR8750E Volume is incompatible with specified
>device type". IBM had defined the volume range for the K tapes as "K
>extended" and should have been defined as just "K".
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>We also started receiving IO errors on our 3590 tape drives. This still
>persists today, but a microcode fix for the problem is in test at IBM and
>is suppose to be released by the end of the month (Hopefully!). The error
>we are receiving is "ANR8302E I/O error on drive RMT1 (/dev/rmt1)
>(OP=WRITE, CC=0, KEY=0B, ASC=44, ASCQ=00".
