Hi, I noticed a while back that a few people were having problems with the IBM3584's and some flavours of Unix. The problems mainly surrounded the issue of LTO tapes getting stuck in the drive that is also the control path for the library. I'm having the same problem now with both of my Solaris servers and my two 3584 libraries. I have G2 drives at 2CKH firmware and when I perform an audit libr the tape that gets placed into drive 1 (element 257) always gets stuck and never ejects. I've also had scenarios where I have had to get an engineer in to remove the tape manually. I am going via SAN and am sharing the tape drives out to Solaris and Windows systems. Everything seems to be going to plan so far (apart from the performance on the Solaris SAN clients) and LAN-free backups are working perfectly. I have noticed the tapes to get stuck in the same drives when performing a backup stg from one library to another. Anyone ever know what resolved this? I'm beginning to tear my hair out! I've just pulled down the latest IBMtape device drivers for Solaris (v4.0.8.0) but still no joy. Anyone?
regards, Rowan O'Donoghue Technical Services Manager Unitech Systems Bracken Business Park Bracken Road Sandyford Industrial Estate Dublin 18. Tel: + 353 - 1 - 2942300 Fax: + 353 - 1 - 2942319 www.unitech-ie.com
