Thank you for the explaination. However, what does it all mean ? Why do I get error message that try to address 20-different possibilities of reasons for some failure, that I am not sure I am having ?
What does it all mean to me ? Should I just call IBM and have them come figure it out ? The last time I did that, all IBM did was talk me through simple troubleshooting (unplug drive from slot a - plug it into slot b - did that make the problem go away......no, bad drive - we will send you a new one.......you plug it in) ! While I don't mind this to a point (I get my hand dirty, all the time), there is a point beyond simple troubleshooting that someone more techincally intimate with the equipment needs to address ! "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/20/2004 07:42:21 AM: > >My AIX TSM server (5.2.2.3) just spewed the following error messages. > > > >Talk about schizophrenic/indecisive !!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > >What gives ? All I was doing is a DB backup. Just inserted and > >initialized this tape. The init went fine. > > > >This is an IBM 3583-L72 with 2-LTO2 drives. > > > >********************************************* > > > >04/19/04 15:34:18 ANR8950W Device /dev/rmt3, volume 090000 has issued > >the following Warning TapeAlert: The operation has stopped be cause an > >error has occurred while reading or writing data which the drive cannot > >correct. (SESSION: 5496, PROCESS: 17) > ... > > You will find TapeAlert summarized in the IBM 358x Setup and Operator Guide > manuals, with flag values. > > TapeAlert is a patented technology and standard of the American National > Standards Institute (ANSI) that defines conditions and problems that are > experienced by tape drives. The technology enables a server to read TapeAlert > flags from a tape drive through the SCSI interface. > The LTO Ultrium tape drives incorporate such alerts. > TSM is merely responding to the spew coming from the tape drive. > > Looks like we've gone from the obscurant extreme of sense bytes to a > profusion of textual possibilities regarding tape errors. Perhaps some > day we'll get succinct messages saying "Here's what's wrong...". > Better yet, perhaps IBM's Autonomic Computing initiative > (www.ibm.com/autonomic) will some day come to its tape technology and > fix problems itself. > > Richard Sims http://people.bu.edu/rbs
