I recently had to have an LTO2 drive replaced in my STK L-700 tape
library, and I can't create a drive path. It fails with the following
error...
04/04/2005 09:10:57 ANR2017I Administrator 7760 issued command:
DEFINE PATH
msptsm01col LTO2-6 SRCTYPE=SERVER DESTTYPE=DRIVE
LIBRARY=L700LIB1 DEVICE=/dev/rmt9 ONLINE=YES
AUTODETECT=YES (SESSION: 50073)
04/04/2005 09:10:57 << Message number 8972 not available for language
/USR/LIB/NLS/MSG/EN_US/ >> (SESSION: 50073)
I've deleted all the drive paths and the drive definition from TSM without
a problem, and confirmed they were all gone. I also deleted the device
from the OS. I checked the director, and the FC drive is indeed logged
into the SAN with the same WWPN as the previous drive, thanks to the
persistent naming function of the L-700. After I deleted all the paths,
and the drive from AIX, I verified it was indeed gone from them both.
Then, ran cfgmgr to rediscover the drive. It gets discovered with the same
device name as before "/dev/rmt9", and shows up as available. I then,
created the drive definition within TSM.
04/04/2005 08:59:29 ANR2017I Administrator 7760 issued command:
DEFINE DRIVE
L700LIB1 lto2-6 ELEMENT=505 ONLINE=YES (SESSION:
49969)
tsm: MSPTSM01COL>q drive l700lib1 lto2-6 f=d
Library Name: L700LIB1
Drive Name: LTO2-6
Device Type: UNKNOWN
On-Line: No
Read Formats:
Write Formats:
Element: 505
Drive State: UNKNOWN
Allocated to:
WWN:
Serial Number:
Last Update by (administrator): 7760
Last Update Date/Time: 04/04/2005 09:15:21
Cleaning Frequency (Gigabytes/ASNEEDED/NONE): NONE
I double checked the element number by checking the physical location
against the element number in the library's remote managment software. So,
I'm sure that's right.
Here's what the drive shows up as in AIX.
rmt9 Available 1s-08-01 LTO Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
Software Versions
TSM Version: 5.2.4.1
AIX 5.2 ML4
Atape.driver 8.4.1.0 COMMITTED IBM AIX Enhanced Tape and
Anybody have any idea what I'm doing wrong?
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