I'm pleased to say that this problem was resolved. We had inadvertently installed AIX 5.2 with a 32 bit kernel. TSM was then installed with the non-matching 64 bit kernel components. After re-installing with the 64 bit kernel, these library errors went away.
>I've 'migrated' a TSM server from an F40 running AIX 4.3.3 >to a p615 running AIX 5.2.0. > >We are running TSM version 5.1.8.0 . >This has been installed on the new machine. > >I copied across the dsmserv.dsk and dsmserv.opt files to >the new machine, added tape & library devices again and >restarted TSM on the new machine. > >The new machine is running in 64 bit mode so the code base won't be >exactly the same. > >This is all worked OK apart from the fact that TSM appears unable >to access the tape library controller. > >On start up, I get : > >031201-162646: ANR8300E I/O error on library STKLIB (OP=00006C02, CC=207, KEY=FF, >ASC=FF, >031201-162646: ASCQ=FF, >031201-162646: SENSE=**NONE**, >031201-162646: Description=Device is not in a state capable of >031201-162646: performing request). Refer to Appendix D in the 'Messages' manual for >031201-162646: recommended action. > >I deleted the drive and library paths and the drive and library >definitions within TSM. When I try to recreate the library path, >I get : > >tsm: ADSM>define library stklib libt=scsi >ANR8400I Library STKLIB defined. > >tsm: ADSM>define path ADSM STKLIB srct=server destt=LIBRARY device=/dev/lb0 >ANR8418E DEFINE PATH: An I/O error occurred while accessing library STKLIB. >ANS8001I Return code 15. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Steven Bridge Systems Group, Information Systems, EISD University College London