Richard, Perhaps the DETACH command with the LEAVE option might avoid the REWIND/UNLOAD problem with this device.
Mike Rydberg Brocade -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:23 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Interpreting Trace Thank, Alan. Your analysis confirms my faded memories of the channel and device protocols. I will pass the information on. Actually, there is no BOT and there is no tape. The vendor chose to reply like a tape drive to the roll-call for reasons unknown to me. I speculate that it is because tape units can be written to and read from in a successive operations. If that is the case, they could have chosen an old printer that allows one to read the print buffer. And they respond unconditionally to sense commands as though the device were at BOT. Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:11 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Interpreting Trace > > On Tuesday, 07/22/2008 at 01:57 EDT, "Schuh, Richard" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > TRACE TYPE IO, CPU 0005 TIME 16:28:05.323115 > > TRACEID = T670, TRACESET = NULL, IODATA = 128 > > USER = SYSTEM, I/O OLD PSW = 0704D001 80000000 > 00000000 002C0FBE > > DEVICE = 0670, SCSW = 01C04017 00AA4088 0E000001 ** > I/O ERROR > > ** > > > ESW = 00800000 > > I/O PRIORITIES: CHANNEL = 0, CURRENT = 255, ORIGINAL = 255 > > OUT-PRIORITIZED COUNT = 0 > > -> CCW(1) = 07600001 00000000, CCW ADDRESS = 00AA4080 > > ********** INVALID DATA ADDRESS ********** > > -> CCW(2) = 0F200001 00000000, CCW ADDRESS = 00AA4088 > > ********** INVALID DATA ADDRESS ********** > > > The vendor says that the device has been modified to return > Device End > for both > > the Rewind (CCW Op Code 07) and the Rewind and Unload (0F) > commands. > > In > the > > penultimate entry, you can see that there is a Rewind chained to a > Rewind and > > Unload. Both of those CCWs are flagged in the trace as > having invalid > data > > addresses. This is puzzling because the I/O was generated by CP. If > there are, > > indeed, invalid data addresses, sould that not cause a > Channel Program > Check or > > some other error rather than Command Reject? Why is CP using invalid > channel > > programs in the first place? > > Those are control operations. The address and length fields > are not [supposed to be] used by the device. The channel > does not generate UNIT CHECKs and does not manufacture SENSE > data. The 'invalid data address' is the result of a > determination by CP, not the channel subsystem, at the time > the record was cut. I've seen this when CP puts bad > addresses in CCWs specifically to catch unexpected data > transfer attempts. > > > Here is the pertinent section from the OPERATOR console: > > > > 15:47:21 TAPE 0670 DETACHED RSCHUH 0670 BY > RSCHUH > > 15:47:21 HCPERP500I TAPE 0670 AN OPERATION WAS TERMINATED BECAUSE > A > > 15:47:21 HCPERP500I COMMAND REJECT ERROR > OCCURRED > > 15:47:21 HCPERP6300I SENSE DATA FORMAT = 02 MSG CODE = > 00 > > 15:47:21 HCPERP6301I CHANNEL COMMAND WORD COMMAND CODE = > 07 > > 15:47:21 HCPERP6303I SENSE = 80482427 00000020 00000000 00000000 > 00000000 > > 15:47:21 HCPERP6303I 00000000 0F010000 > 00000000 > > 15:47:21 HCPERP6304I IRB = 01C04017 00AA4088 0E000001 > 00800000 > > 15:47:21 HCPERP6305I USERID = > SYSTEM > > 15:47:21 HCPERP2216I CHANNEL PATH ID = > 52 > > 15:47:21 HCPERP2220I PHYSICAL CHANNEL PATH ID = > 0168 > > > > According to the vendor, their internal trace shows that > their machine > received > > the Rewind and responded with Device End. The next thing > they saw was > the Sense. > > The first 4 bytes of SENSE data (80482427) show that > - X'80': The device is rejecting the REWIND > - X'48': Drive is online and is at beginning-of-tape. > - X'24': Path 2 to the device is raising the error > : The autoloader has cartridges in it > - X'27': Error recovery action = (what you see in the HCPERP messages) > > Byte 7 says it is format X'20' sense data, so starting at byte 24: > - X'0F': ESCON 4.5 MB/s channel > - X'01': Autoloader is installed > > With no knowledge of the device, I'd say they rejected the > REWIND because > it was already at BOT, but regardless, the evidence points to > the device, > not to the channel or CP. > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development > IBM Endicott >
