Make absolutely sure you are running the latest Magstar Drivers and Magstar Microcode. I think you have reserve release problem and possibly you have not setup sharing correctly for this environment. Remember, new drivers were required for Solaris 7 and up because of the 64 bit stuff.
-----Original Message----- From: Luke Dahl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 6:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3494 Library/Drive Problem Hi, Environment: 3494 Library with three B1A drives Two Solaris 8 Servers with TSM 4.1.4.5 SCSI connections from both servers to each drive, so that they are shared between the two servers. Our problem is that when we start three sessions directly to tape on Server 1 the drives go to polling status on Server 2. We then will stop a session on Server 1, start one directly to tape on Server 2 and oftentimes the drive will go to unavailable status. Also, it may show unavailable on only one server for a while, even when it is in use by that server (tape loaded and being written to). I've included some information that hopefully is helpful below. Thank you all in advance. >From Server1: Library Name 3494 Library Type 349X Device 3494a ACS Id - Private Category 300 Scratch Category 301 External Manager - Shared YES Device Class Name 3590 Device Access Strategy Sequential Storage Pool Count 1 Device Type 3590 Format 3590C Est/Max Capacity - Mount Limit DRIVES Mount Wait (min) 60 Mount Retention (min) 1 Label Prefix ADSM Library 3494 Directory - Server Name - Retry Period - Retry Interval - Server two is exactly the same. Luke Dahl NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory 818-354-7117
