I tried that for a couple hours yesterday. There are two drives, I disabled one and tried both element numbers on the working drive. Nothing! Then I disabled that drive and tried both element numbers on the 2nd drive. Nothing!
A great idea, but unfortunately I already tried that one. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Stapleton Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3583 FC Problem From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joshua Bassi > I have already read this Redbook. I have been working with IBM Level 2 > support to resolve the issue and thus far nothing is working. I can use > lbtest from NT to mount and unmount tapes, but when TSM goes to load a > tape it loads successful but then can't seem to do anything with it. I > have the local IBM CE coming out (again!) today to test the tape drives. A good beer says you've got a mismatch of element numbers with LUN numbers. That would explain 1) why lbtest works fine 2) why the library will load a tape (tape load uses the LUN to locate the device), but also why it can't read, write, or unload the tape. (These operations use the element number.) Element match with fiber drives is tricky. Your best bet is disable (via upd path) all drives but one, and use trial and error to get the element right. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Certified TSM consultant Certified AIX system engineer MCSE