>From what I have seen on this thread, the drives in question are IBM LTO3 drives. The TSM device driver cannot be used with these. Only the IBM Atape device drive must be used. You have to de-install the TSM device driver, install the IBM device driver and this should work.
Guillaume Gilbert Storage Architect Storage Group, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] 514.866.8876 Office 514.290.6526 Cell -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Stapleton Sent: October 11, 2006 15:57 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm not recognizing tape unit From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario Behring No. But, just out of curiosity, is there any difference if it is started at boot time or not ? Indeed it does! If it doesn't start at boot time, the OS takes over the device when it loads its drivers. -- Mark Stapleton Senior TSM engineer Evolving Solutions, Minneapolis