This is not related to the 3590K drive issue but might be.... Especially
since I am only using 3590B's or E's
One site we have has the following 8 x 3590 B drives in 3494. Server uses
ADSM version 3.1 (I know 3.1 is not supported anymore but we have to use due
to an API issue). This site runs fine with not problems labelling.
The other site has 3 x 3590E drives. It does have problems labelling 3590
(10Gb) tape.
When labelling 3590 (10Gb) tapes, approx 33% of tapes labelled return a
"defective media" result. It shows up in AIX error logs and ADSM error logs.
Anyone heard of this ?? Has anyone heard of this?
Will moving to AIX 4.3 and ADSM (TSM 3.7 or 4.1) Fix this?? I assume that
ADSM version 3.1 knows nothing about 3590E drives.
I know this is a total DUHHHHHHHH question .. but it's bugging me. IBM say
that it will go away in 3.7 and 4.1. Make sense??
Your responses will always be appreciated
Cheers
Stephen
Babcock's Law:
If it can be borrowed and it can be broken, you will borrow it and you will
break it.
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: Friday, 11 May 2001 11:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: More on 3590K tape quality issues
Postings from customers using 3590K tapes have, over the past months,
noted problems which most conspicuously turn up when trying to label
the tapes. I had the same problem of I/O errors on several tapes
two months ago, in the labeling process. I persisted in performing
the label operation on the problematic ones, and finally got them all
labeled. Once labeled, no problems.
Today I received a fresh shipment of 3590K tapes (IBM part number 05H3188)
and labeled 70 of them. Three exhibited labeling problems, on different
drives. I repeated the Label Libvolume on those three: two of them then
successful, one failed. Repeated on the last tough one and it finally went
through.
Such is the current state of 3590K tape and drive harmony, at least at
this site.
Richard Sims, BU
