Try defining the drives first then the paths. It's in reverse order from
when you delete them.
Sequence order of events is very important with drive pathing in TSM 5.
Also you can try halting and then restarting the tsm server instance.
Very last if AIX you can do an "lsdev -Cc tape" to make sure they are
available if not then delete them
all "lsdev -Cc tape | awk '{print "rmdev -dl " $1}' > file;chmod 700
file;./file", then run "cfgmgr"
then check: "lsdev -Cc tape" again. Also make sure your library manger
special device is available
and ready: "lsdev -Cc tape | grep -i smc". You can test it with: "tapeutil
-f/dev/smc0 inventory | more"
Thanks!
--Justin Richard Bleistein
Unix/TSM Systems Administrator
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I am not sure of the 3584 tape system, but on our 3494 tape system,
connected to an AIX box, when a tape drive it taken off line and then
set back to on line, the drive goes into a state of "unknown". The first
time that drive is accessed by the library, it changes state again.
also make sure that the drives and paths are on line.
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Hi,
Have just had to delete both the paths and drives which we use
for
TSM backups on an IBM3584 tape library because of issues regarding
drives
not being defined to use LTO2 tapes. Once successfully deleted the
drives
and paths were re-defined in the correct order. However upon redeining
the
drives thay all appear to have a drive status of unknown. Does anyone
know
why this happens and more importantly how to rectify this so the
drives
actually shown their correct state i.e empty or loaded. Will a reboot
of
the server clear this issue up ?
Any help would be appreciated
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