I can't rule out a H/W problem, but...I did upgrade to 5.1.6 and the problem went away. How solid is the tsmscsi stuff in 5.1.5 for Linux?
Mitch "Seay, Paul" wrote: > You likely have a marginal SCSI cabling problem, missing terminator, tape > driver or something like this. This is probably not a TSM issue. > > Paul D. Seay, Jr. > Technical Specialist > Naptheon Inc. > 757-688-8180 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mitch Sako [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Tape Requests Never Mounting > > I have a new 5.1.5 test server running on Linux that puts up mount requests > for migrations to a set of 4mm manual drives and the server is never > acknowledging that the tape is mounted and therefore never starts the > migration. I noticed that when I was doing manual labeling that the first > few requests were not being serviced but they magically started > acknowledging the tape in the drive and the labeling process continued as > normal. > > I've checked the device class, path, drive and all of the other relavent > things and they all look clean. Proof of this to me is that the labels were > put on the tapes just fine. Now, when I test migration the drives never > acknowledge the tapes. > > I'm thinking that there is some switch or setting that I need to toggle to > make this work. > > Any ideas? > > -ms
