On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 08:12:40PM -0700, Dan Jennings wrote:
> I support a bunch of 3575 tape lib's on AIX servers
> and all of them always return an errno 46 when closing
> a drive device with tapeutil. Usually this has no
> relationship to readiness from a *SM point of view,
> though.
Dan, thank you for confirmation.. we found the same
thing as we have the same error on the other L06
which has no problem at all.
> Since it sounds like you are a veteran AIX'er, I guess
> I don't have to tell you how to run diags against the
> drives, now do I? I don't know what the L-06 models
Sure we run. No problem found.. :(
> support from the front panel, but I would definitely
> try the equivalent of a "Configure Library" on an L-18.
>
> I would also try to shut down *SM and attempt to write
> and read from the devices in question using tar, cpio,
This is a bit hard to do for me, as I am about 12000km
far from the library console right now :>
But next week I'll try to make the local admins to run
the configurations and the tar test.. but...
> etc. just to make sure there are no driver/cfgmgr/ODM
> issues. Removing the devices and running cfgmgr to
> rediscover them might also be helpful.
... yep. this is the but. We did it already. Even we
changed to scsi addresses just to see...
Since we found no hw problem with diag, and reconfiguration
did not help, we agreed with the CE, that it must be some
strange sw error... I hoped someone have seen it already.
> Good luck!
Thx :) We need it :)
>
> Gyula Bereczky wrote:
> >
> > Hi *SMers,
> > have any of you seen this?
> > At one location we have two exactly the same AIX (4.3.2.0) ADSM (3.1.2.40)
> > servers with 3575 L06 lib with C drives.
> > One one of the servers some time ago the tape drives failed with error code
> > 46. We tried to upgrade atape, and the microcode as well, but made no
> > difference... The hw and sw setup for the two servers is exactly the same.
> > One failed, the other did not.
> >
> > The error msgs:
> > ANR8779E Unable to open drive /dev/rmt1, error number=46
> > ANR8792E Unrecoverable drive failures on drive DRIVE0 (/dev/rmt1);
> > drive is now taken offline.
> > ANR8470W Initialization failure on drive DRIVE0 (/dev/rmt1) in library 3575LIB.
> > ANR8779E Unable to open drive /dev/rmt2, error number=46.
> > ANR8792E Unrecoverable drive failures on drive DRIVE1 (/dev/rmt2);
> > drive is now taken offline.
> >
> > Oh, and one more nice thing. There is no indication of error in the AIX
> > error log at all, but we can reproduce the 46 error code using tapeutil,
> > when closing the device, or testing if it's ready...
> >
> > Any idea would be highly appreciated. I am almost desperate...
>
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