what version of NCS are you on ?
- ravi. On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:27:15 -0500, Glenn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We have been trying to upgrade the LMU/LCU on our STK9310 ( PowderHorn ) >ATL to support STK9840D tape drives. We currently have microcode level >1.9.26 on the LMU's and we have microcode level 4.2.04 on the LCU's. > >For the 2nd weekend we attempted to upgrade the microcode level to 1.9.74 >on the LMU's and 4.4.08 on the LCU's. The installation/activation of the >microcode appears to successful. The LMU's activate successfully, the LSM's >activate successfully and all of our tape drives work. We are able to >mount/dismount tape cartridges in all of our tape drives. However when we >attempt to any type of CAP processing, 'ejects' or 'enters' something goes >very wrong and the entire SILO ( the entire ACS ) appears to become >unresponsive because the STK HSC host software reports that the ACS is >disconnected. > >Last weekend we were running on the 'new' LMU/LCU microcode for more than >90 minutes before we attempted to perform a CAP 'enter'. The robotics >appeared to 'read' 11 tape cartridges before we recieved the "ACS >Disconnected" message on the z/OS consoles. > >Yesterday we were running for about 30 minutes before we attempted to >eject 1 3490 tape cartridge. The robot had retrieved the cartridge from its >storage cell, moved it to the CAP cell before we received the "ACS >Disconnected" message on the z/OS consoles. > >We have engaged STK software support who says they have not encountered >any problems with this level of microcode. They are attempting to analyze >some HSC 'trace' data we captured yesterday when the problem occrred. > >I was wondering if anyone has STK9840D tape drives installed in a STK9310 ( >PowderHorn ) ATL ( not an SL8500 ) and if so, would you be willing to share >with me your LMU/LCU microcode levels and if you do any CAP processing. > > >Thank you in advance for any help you can give us. > >Glenn Miller ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
