Dear Zoltan, I am hooking up an 3494 with 3 scsi drives to tsm 5.1 and w2k.
Eventough I see mij 3590 drives on my scsi bus I cant define the drives because of an I/O error. Does this sound familliar to you ? Best Regards, Koen Willems. >From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Adventures sharing/connecting 3494 ATL to TSM AIX system >Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:06:02 -0400 > >We are having an adventure trying to configure a 3494 ATL and 3590-FC >drives to be used by TSM on an AIX server. Never having done this kind of >configuration before, we are having lots of issues and questions. > >Existing configuration is a 3494 ATL with 6-3490 and 8-3590 ESCON attached >drives, up until now only used by our OS/390 system. > >We have installed 3-3590E1A drives with FC connections to an existing SAN. > This part seems to be working since the SAN configuration tools see the >drives, just fine. At first they wouldn't work since IBM left the devices >with no addresses/offline. Fixed that. However we still have a call into >IBM to see what else they might have left configured incorrectly. > >IBM finally got the ethernet connection/card working so we can PING and >talk to the Library Manager. LM has been configured with the IP (private) >address and name of the TSM AIX box/server (running latest, V5.1). > >Ran through all the processes to configure the LM and 3590 drives >(/dev/lmcp0 and /dev/rmt1-3). > >MTLIB -qS says there are 17 devices (OS390 connected 14 + 3-FC). Yet we >can't access the tape drives since we can't seem to configure the 3590 >drives as being part of the ATL (any suggestions would be helpful !!). > >Also, we seem to have some issues with the CATEGORY ? This too is >unfamiliar to us since we have never had to deal with this. Earlier >attempts at getting the TSM AIX server to mount/initialize a tape we >inserted into the ATL issued: > > ANR8846E Volume 070000 is assigned to a category that does not >belong to library 3494ATL. > >So, some of my questions: > >1. How does one control the CATEGORY assigned to tapes we stick into the >ATL. As for the OS390 side, CA-1 won't let those tapes be used by it >since it is outside of the controlled ranged. Also, since OS390 does >recognize the tape as being inserted, I planned to just manually update >the SMS info for these tapes to mark them as all being PRIVATE. Anything >wrong with this idea ? > >I took the default Private (300) and Scratch (301) categories when >defining the ATL. > >2. Do I need to LABEL all of the tapes I insert for these drives to use ? > > >3. Do I still have to go through the CHECKIN process eventhough it is in >an ATL ? > >4. Is there something on the Library Manager that needs to be configured >to control access to the 3590-FC tapes (these are the only "K" type drives >we have and thus should be the only devices that use the "K" tapes). > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Zoltan Forray >Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807 _________________________________________________________________ Join the world s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
