On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 08:37:58AM -0400, Richard Sims wrote:
> >ANR8779E Unable to open drive /dev/rmt1, error number=46
> Gyula - The "error number" is the Unix (AIX) errno, in this case being
> ENOTREADY (device not ready). This can show up when the devices
> are in an Offline state. It sounds like the hardware is having a
nope.
> problem; but the absence of error indications in the AIX error log is
> peculiar. (I presume that you are seeing other, recent events in that
> log such that you know that error logging is happening in general.)
sure.
> I'd have your hardware support people check out the 3575 lib, and
> demonstrate repeatability of the problem via 'tapeutil' to facilitate
> diagnosis.
Does not really help.
We can reproduce the same error on the other server, while that one
operating smooth....
I happened to be an AIX guy for 4 years now :) So we checked the log,
the device status, and as I said we even upgraded the microcode.
Right now I am also talking to the IBM support guy on irc.
And I am an IBMer too...
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bx
"Using vim will surely improve ones computer skills."
