Jeff,
The drive may have taken a firmware dump. Check with your local Oracle/Sun/Stk
support to get current drive firmware installed.
Make sure the drive does not have the "full code" option enabled, this can the
drive firmware to fail.
Current tape firmware available from Oracle:
9840C 1.45.503
9840D 1.45.703
T10KA 1.46.109
T10KB 1.46.209
T10KC 1.51.318
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf
Of Jeff Gribbin
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:36 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: HCPDPM1280E with STK 9840C Tape Drive
Thanks for the thought but I don't think that's it - there really is just
one tape drive and it's in regular use from the z/OS LPARS.
I HAVE (just) successfully used TAPE WVOL1 volser to write a VOL1 label onto
a tape - this was part of a double-check that the tape WAS fully rewound
prior to the write (from the HELP, the usual cause of HCP584I would seem to
be attempting to write - in some circumstances - to a previously-written
tape without ensuring one is at the beginning). However, an
immediately-following TAPE DUMP * * A gave us the following on OPERATOR:
17:30:49 HCPERP2252I TAPE 0500 PATH 50 NOT OPERATIONAL
17:30:49 HCPERP2252I TAPE 0500 PATH 50 NOT OPERATIONAL
17:30:49 HCPERP602I TAPE 0500 AN INTERFACE CONTROL CHECK OCCURRED
17:30:49 HCPERP6303I SENSE = 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
17:30:49 HCPERP6303I 00000000 00000000 00000000
17:30:49 HCPERP6304I IRB = 04C24017 6DF3DD30 00020000 0080C400
17:30:49 HCPERP6305I USERID = MAINT
17:30:49 HCPERP2216I CHANNEL PATH ID = 50
17:30:49 HCPERP2220I PHYSICAL CHANNEL PATH ID = 0100
along with:
HCPDPM1280E Device 0181 not usable; assign lost
on MAINT.
:sigh.
