On Friday, Jan 24, 2003, at 21:20 Australia/Sydney, Michelle Wiedeman wrote:
one of my drives in the library continues to produce errors and is taken offline by tsm. 01/24/03 11:00:45 ANR8779E Unable to open drive /dev/rmt1, error number=46. 01/24/03 11:00:51 ANR8792E Unrecoverable drive failures on drive RMT1 (/dev/rmt1); drive is now taken offline. errno 46 is defined within aix as being a device not ready error. now I've tried to delete and redefine the unit on both platforms, but no success.
Both platforms? Is the drive being shared?
the server no comes with an advice to audit the library, since I have no clues anymore I'm willing to try this, but have never done it before. The manuals speak of it as being quite time consuming but nowhere it says approx. how long and if I can in some way reduce the time. The manuals also state that some processes will be halted for as long as the audit is running, but again nowhere it states which ones or maybe all processes.
If this is a 3494 library, I've done several audits with no hassle. Since the 3494's library controller maintains a database of all the tapes present in the library, a TSM "audit library" just validates the libvolumes table against the library. It takes less than a minute. BTW, if your drives are 3590s, I've seen problems like you describe before. For us, it was a combination of bad tapes, and old drive firmware. An audit library isn't going to help.
does anyone have a clue??
I hope some of us do! :-) Cheers, -- Paul Ripke Unix/OpenVMS/DBA 101 reasons why you can't find your Sysadmin: 68: It's 9AM. He/She is not working that late. -- Koos van den Hout
