Hi, As said before hand they are control paths on the drives in the library. You'll need the atape driver and drivers for the lto drives themselves (i remember clearly installing new drivers when we went to lto2). should have come on a cd with the library / drives. or you can down load them from ibm. If you look over the atape manual you can set up failover for the smc devices which is one reason to set up multple control paths ..
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/08/06 12:54PM >>> I'm bringing up a remote AIX system with a 3584. Seems as though IBM left it in an unusable state and I'm trying to figure out why. What I originally saw was the below output minus the 3584 info. I ran cfgmgr and now have the below output. What is odd to me is that there are 3 3584's showing up. On the system I have here I only have the one. The defined drives I've seen before too. In fact on the system I have here, if I reboot it a few of the drives show up as defined instead of available. That doesn't happen with the 3490's on the other system. I still have one in that state and haven't been able to bring it back as of yet. These 3 are similar and I'm at a loss as to why IBM would leave an installation in a state like this. Can anyone shed some light on the library or tape drive issue? # lsdev -Cc tape rmt0 Available 40-60-00-5,0 SCSI 4mm Tape Drive rmt1 Available 14-08-02 Other FC SCSI Tape Drive rmt2 Available 17-08-01 Other FC SCSI Tape Drive rmt3 Available 54-08-01 Other FC SCSI Tape Drive rmt4 Defined 1A-08-02 Other FC SCSI Tape Drive rmt5 Defined 21-08-01 Other FC SCSI Tape Drive rmt6 Defined 5A-08-01 Other FC SCSI Tape Drive smc0 Available 14-08-02 IBM 3584 Library Medium Changer (FCP) smc1 Available 17-08-01 IBM 3584 Library Medium Changer (FCP) smc2 Available 54-08-01 IBM 3584 Library Medium Changer (FCP) Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is confidential, intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that the dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you receive this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please notify the sender by reply e-mail, delete this e-mail from your computer, and destroy any copies in any form immediately. Receipt by anyone other than the named recipient(s) is not a waiver of any attorney-client, work product, or other applicable privilege. This message and all contents may be reviewed by authorized parties of the Catholic Health System other than those named in the message header. The contents of this message do not bind the Catholic Health System to any contract, position, or course of action unless the sender is specifically authorized to enter into contracts on behalf of the Catholic Health System. The contents of this message do not necessarily constitute an official representation of the Catholic Health System.