We had a problem with a newly installed 3494. One of the 6 drives showed up
DOA, and the replacement drive was configured incorrectly. Whenever TSM
called for a tape mount, the drive would fail reading the tape and the
library would eject the tape all by itself. There were messages in the
library manager log about not being able to read the label of the tape.
There may be a problem with a drive. You may want to have the CE check out
the logs on the LM. Once the CE configured the 3590 correctly, the problem
went away. TSM didn't know anything about those tapes being ejected. We did
see some I/O errors in the TSM activity log.
Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Steve Harris
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 3494 phantom ejections
Hi All,
I have a 3494 that normally runs almost unattended. Yesterday I had to
attend to it because of a tape stuck in the drive, but also discovered 8
carts in the IO port.
These were all valid, in use ADSM tapes and the library was showing their
status as manually removed.
Any ideas how they could have gotten into this state? Is there a 3494 log I
can look at?
I opened and closed the IO port and checked them all in again, and all now
seems correct.
ADSM is 3.1.2.50
AIX is 4.3.2
Steve Harris
AIX and ADSM (TSM is in testing!) Admin
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia
