It could be microcode upgrade of the drive.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gomersbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 4:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Unavailable tape drive on AIX


> > Even after restarting the TSM server we still cannot redefine the drive
(we
> > get the same error message).
> > We have managed to delete and redefine one of our other tape drives.
> >
> > Has anyone got any suggestions about this error and how we can redefine
our
> > drive?
>
> Robert,  it probably sounds silly, but restarting (i.e. power the robot
off
> and on) did help us. Some time ago we had the same problem, except that it
> was a 3590 drive in a 3494 library.
>

I had the same problem on a 3584 library, it was fixed after a firmware
upgrade.

Paul Gomersbach

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