Steven, I had the same kind of problem on a TSM 5.3.1 server recently (other hardware, but same behaviour), and had to restart the application in order to get the drive recognized ... If you can afford some minutes downtime, worth to give it a try ;-) Cheers.
Arnaud ************************************************************************ ****** Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland, CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01 Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ ****** -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Bridge Sent: Monday, 25 July, 2005 16:40 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Replaced tape drive now device type 'unknown' We have 3 AIT-2 drives within a Qualstar 412600 library. After having a drive replaced, 'q dri' is now showing it as device type 'UNKNOWN' rather than '8MM' - and the define path command is failing with : << Message number 8972 not available for language /USR/LIB/NLS/MSG/EN_US/ >> Usually when a drive is replaced, I delete the path and drive and recreate these ( since TSM 5.2 ? ) as the serial number of the drive no longer matches. Up to now this has always worked. The drive was detected OK by AIX and I have been able to use tar directly from AIX to write and read from a tape manually inserted. I have removed and recreated the TSM device 'mt1' but still the problem re-occurs. Is this due to the tape drive failing to respond correctly to some SCSI enquiry commnd that TSM is submitting ? lscfg returns same output from a 'good' and a 'bad' drive : lscfg -vl rmt0 rmt0 U0.1-P1-I1/Z1-A1 Other SCSI Tape Drive Manufacturer................SONY Machine Type and Model......SDX-500C Serial Number............... Device Specific.(Z3)........0000 'q dri f=d' shows a serial number for the 'good' drives. Is there any way of persuading TSM to use this drive ? Or is there something wrong with this drive ? Using TSM 5.2.3 on AIX 5.2 . +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Steven Bridge Systems Group, Information Systems, EISD University College London
