I think I may have had the same problem on my pair of IBM 3590 B11
drives when we first installed them about 2 years ago.
1. The tape drive needs to be fixed.
2. You have trashed some very expensive tapes.
We finally had to send the tapes back for warrenty replacement.
But once IBM fixed the tape drive, it has been running fine ever
since.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/28/2006 1:20 PM >>>
I have 4 standalone 3590 drives (addresses 1800-1803). A specific tape
cartridge (VM0124) works fine in drive 1803, but in drive 1802 I get:
q v 182
TAPE 0182 ON DEV 1802 3590 R/W SUBCHANNEL = 0016
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 11:40:25
rew 182
Rewind complete
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 11:40:41
tape query (182
DMSP2C217I Device TAP2 can write the 3590 Compacted recording format
(3590C)
DMSP2C217I Device TAP2 can write the 3590 Basic recording format
(3590B)
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 11:40:50
tape dvol1 (182
VOL1VM0124
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 11:40:57
tape wtm 2 (182
DMSTIO2139I VDEV 182 SENSE gives ERA/RAC= D0; cartridge may not be
valid
for I/O
DMSP2C111S Error writing TAP2(182)
Ready(00100); T=0.01/0.01 11:41:22
According to the Messages manual the "D0" code means "Cartidge format
incompatible for write".
I've tried using the "3590C" and "3590B" parameters to force the
recording
mode, but get the same results. Any data I write to the tape on a
different drive (such as a vol1 label) I can read when it's mounted in
1802 (as shown above), I just can't write to it on 1802.
Other outwardly identical tape cartridges work fine in drive 1802.
I get similar results using VMFPLC2.
DDR gets write I/O errors:
DUMPING Z52RES
DUMPING DATA 08/26/06 AT 00.16.14 GMT FROM Z52RES
INPUT CYLINDER EXTENTS OUTPUT CYLINDER EXTENTS
START STOP START STOP
HCPDDR705E I/O ERROR 0181 IRB 00000000 0002F6E0 0600C080 00000000
000000
SNS 424408C0 11206260 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000096 4A042300
A3971
CCW 01D34000 2000C080
INPUT 00000004000E OUTPUT 00000004000E
00000000 00000003 00000000 00000003
END OF DUMP
HCPDDR705E I/O ERROR 0181 IRB 00000000 0002F538 06000001 00000000
000000
SNS 104C10D0 60117050 001FFF00 00000000 0385003A 5B000091 43042300
A3971
CCW 1F02F530 60000001
INPUT 00000004000E OUTPUT 00000004000E
END OF JOB
If it was a bad cartridge I wouldn't expect it to work in drive 1803.
If
1802 was at fault I wouldn't expect other cartridges to work in it.
Any ideas?
Brian Nielsen
