Re: LTO2 corrupted index question

2005-02-15 Thread Bill Kelly
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Jurjen Oskam wrote: > Indeed the symptoms seem to suggest that you have the exact same problem > as we have. Do the TapeAlerts mostly occur on the drive that acts as the > control port? As a matter of fact, yes; I was going to report that they *always* show up on that drive,

Re: LTO2 corrupted index question

2005-02-15 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:03:57AM -0600, Bill Kelly wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've got TapeAlerts enabled. And yes, we've > seen all sorts of 'silly' TapeAlerts in the past couple of months; some [...] > information show up. It sounds to me as if we're experiencing the same >

Re: LTO2 corrupted index question

2005-02-15 Thread Bill Kelly
Jurjen, Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've got TapeAlerts enabled. And yes, we've seen all sorts of 'silly' TapeAlerts in the past couple of months; some samples: The operation has failed The tape drive may have a hardware fault. You are trying to write to a write protected cartridge The tape driv

Re: LTO2 corrupted index question

2005-02-15 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 02:26:42PM -0600, Bill Kelly wrote: > A few months ago, we experienced several of the 'corrupted tape directory' > problems...more precisely described as a 'corrupted CM index', I think. [LTO-2 firmware/volume problems] > I'm seeing. I'm assuming that the firmware

LTO2 corrupted index question

2005-02-14 Thread Bill Kelly
Hi, Running TSM server 5.2.3.0 on AIX 5.2 ML4. Tape library is 3584 with five LT0-2 drives. A few months ago, we experienced several of the 'corrupted tape directory' problems...more precisely described as a 'corrupted CM index', I think. This was a firmware problem, whereby a tape cartridge's i