Hi list,
I had a problem this morning, where I lost one of the LTO1 drives of our
3584 library. I then opened a call by IBM, and like always, their first
advice was to upgrade the Atape driver to latest version (9.6.0.0) and
to delete/redefine the drive at AIX (5.3.0) level. I followed their
recommendations, to no success, as it was in fact due to some faulty
Fiber connection, what I discovered later ...
Off course, to perform the Atape driver upgrade, I had to stop TSM
server, thus avoiding any eventual tape access ... My problem appeared
when I tried to restart the server, under the form of this message in
activity log :
11/08/05 12:26:15 ANR8963E Unable to find path to match the serial
number
defined for drive LTO1DR6 in library LTOLIB1 .
11/08/05 12:26:16 ANR9999D mmsscsi.c(7771): ThreadId<18> Unable to
restore
library drive state for LTOLIB1.
11/08/05 12:26:16 ANR9999D ThreadId<18> issued message 9999 from:
<-0x000000010001bf88 outDiagf
<-0x00000001005b87d8
PerformInit <-0x00000001005b89e0 InitThread
<-0x00000001
0000e958 StartThread <-0x09000000005412dc
_pthread_body
11/08/05 12:26:16 ANR8440E Initialization failed for SCSI library
LTOLIB1;
will retry in 2 minute(s).
I had to remove the path and drive definitions for the faulty drive, to
finally get the whole library initialized ! This seems very strange to
me, as, AFAIR, I've never seen such a behavior ...
We upgraded recently to TSM 5.3.1.4 : is it a new "function" which was
introduced at this level ?
Anyway, I find it pretty strange that a whole library could not be
initialized just because of one missing drive...
Anybody having an explanation ?
TIA.
Cheers.
Arnaud
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