Hi Kurt, I believe there is a problem with your driver for the 29160. The timeouts are usually coded in the driver. Check this with IBM; http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=547&context=STCVQ6Y&uid=ssg1S400 0097 and take a look at the file IBMUltrium.Win2k.Readme.txt
This article says "serious performance problems" when using adaptec's drivers, but I've seen other strange errors, when using the wrong driver. I would always recommend IBM's driver, which you can find here: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Win2000/ the file is called adaptec_lun.zip. Hope this helps - from my experience, these kind of problems might take while to isolate/solve. Rgds Geirr G. Halvorsen -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20. december 2002 13:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bacup primary to copy storage pool on LTO fails Hi everybody, I’ve got the following environment: TSM server 5.1.1.6 on Windows 2000 SP2 (IBM Netfinity server xSeries 232) IBM LTO library 3583, 2 LTO drives and 18 slots The library is connected with two Adaptec SCSI card 29160 Ultra160 SCSI controllers (driver name: Adaptec, version 6.1.530.201, date 5/14/2002). The first controller goes to one drive and the other controller to the robot arm and the second drive The IBM LTO device drivers are of IBM corporation, version 5.0.3.2 I’ve got a failure when I take a backup of the primary storage pool on LTO to the copy storage pool. The copying stops when large files need to be transferred from tape to tape (large is bigger than 2 GB). A write error is found in the activity log, the tape of the copy storage pool gets the status read-only and another scratch pool is allocated to the copy storage pool. The backup goes on a while until the next large file is met. The errors in the activity log are: 12/20/2002 09:55:43 ANR8302E I/O error on drive DRIVE1 (mt0.0.0.3) (OP=WRITE, Error Number=121, CC=0, KEY=00, ASC=00, ASCQ=00, SENSE=**NONE**, Description=An undetermined error has occurred). Refer to Appendix D in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action. 12/20/2002 09:55:43 ANR1411W Access mode for volume 000020L1 now set to "read-only" due to write error. 12/20/2002 10:04:31 ANR8302E I/O error on drive DRIVE1 (mt0.0.0.3) (OP=LOCATE, Error Number=1104, CC=0, KEY=08, ASC=14, ASCQ=03, SENSE=70.00.08.00.00.00.00.1C.00.00.00.00.14.03.00.00.20- .76.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.05.00.00.9A.8D.00.0- 0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.- 00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00- .00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0- 0.00.00.00.00, Description=An undetermined error has occurred). Refer to Appendix D in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action. 12/20/2002 10:04:31 ANR1411W Access mode for volume 000010L1 now set to "read-only" due to write error. 12/20/2002 10:44:24 ANR8302E I/O error on drive DRIVE1 (mt0.0.0.3) (OP=WRITE, Error Number=121, CC=0, KEY=00, ASC=00, ASCQ=00, SENSE=**NONE**, Description=An undetermined error has occurred). Refer to Appendix D in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action. 12/20/2002 10:44:24 ANR1411W Access mode for volume LA0014L1 now set to "read-only" due to write error. 12/20/2002 11:11:13 ANR8302E I/O error on drive DRIVE1 (mt0.0.0.3) (OP=WRITE, Error Number=121, CC=0, KEY=00, ASC=00, ASCQ=00, SENSE=**NONE**, Description=An undetermined error has occurred). Refer to Appendix D in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action. 12/20/2002 11:11:13 ANR1411W Access mode for volume LA0015L1 now set to "read-only" due to write error. 12/20/2002 11:31:06 ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: QUERY ACTLOG begindate=today-1 begintime=08:00 enddate=today endtime=now search=error In the event viewer of the TSM server, I’ve got the following error: Source: adpu160m Type: Error Category: None Event ID: 9 Description: The device, \Device\Scsi\adpu160m2, did not respond within the timeout period. So there is a timeout somewhere during the copy of tape to tape with the large files. Does anybody knows how to solve this problem? How can the timeout be increased? The backup of the clients to the disk storage pool is fine and the flush of the disk storage pool to the LTO pool is without any problems as well. Is this a harware problem or a TSM problem? Any help/input would greatly be appreciated, Kurt
