Hi there
Here is our setup. We use Gresham's DistribuTAPE software to manage our STK 9840
drives, which are in an STK 9310 (BIG mainframe library).The drives are fiber attached
through a Brocade silkworm switch.
We originally used Gresham's AdvanTAPE driver with the generictape device class. After
reading that this class could not do lanfree backups and library sharing, I decided
to use TSM's native device driver for these drives which are supported according to
tivoli's website. Now changing a device class is not a small task. You have to migrate
all your tapes to the new class and 600 9840 tapes at 20 gb a piece is a long and
tedeous process. Since then, we've been having all sorts of IO errors and the more
recent the Server version, the worst it is. My production server is at 4.1.3. When the
errors pop up its usually this one :
05/21/2002 09:38:47 ANR8302E I/O error on drive TSMCPLX9840E (/dev/mt3)
(OP=READ, CC=206, KEY=FF, ASC=FF, ASCQ=FF,
SENSE=**NONE**, Description=General SCSI failure). Refer
to Appendix D in the 'Messages' manual for recommended
action.
which is not too bad, just updates the tape to readonly and dismounts it. We also get
CC=205 and some CC=40*. Luckily for me I have a test server around to test AIX5.1
which is connected to the sam drives so I thought I'd have better luck with 4.2.2.*.
Well it's worse, every time a dismount occurs I get this error :
06/26/2002 15:36:39 ANR8302E I/O error on drive TSMCPLX9840E (/dev/mt0)
(OP=OFFL, Error Number=78, CC=205, KEY=FF, ASC=FF,
ASCQ=FF, SENSE=**NONE**, Description=SCSI adapter
failure). Refer to Appendix D in the 'Messages' manual
for recommended action.
And the tape is no longer readable. I've had a PMR open for a month now on this thing
and finally its up to level 2 support.
Does anybody out there have the same setup as I do. Any help would be appreciated.
Guillaume Gilbert
CGI Canada
