These drives are FC-AL, which tells you they are loop devices. On the switch, you should see as L-port. Please refer to prod doc for first troubleshooting and if you need, send the output of 'SupportShow' to IBM. Gus Jin Bae Chi (Gus) System Administrator Data Center, CSCC 614-287-5270 614-287-5488 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/12/2005 12:29 PM >>> I have a question that hopefully someone can answer, when it comes to the above. We recently connected two additional 3580 drives to our IBM 2109-S08 SAN switch. They seemed to connect OK but now one of them has lost connectivity and we haven't been able to figure it out (trying to open it with AIX tapeutil failes with a code=50). As we were investigating the switches, we noticed that for some reason, some of the PORT definitions for the LTO drives appear as N-TYPE and NL-TYPE. What is the distinction between the NL and N and how is that defined ? The drive with the problem is coming across as a N-TYPE when everyone else seems to be an NL-type. Yes, I have updates the firmware on all drives to the latest. There are two 3580 libraries. One is at 6.03 and the other at 6.01, FWIW !