Hello *SMers, I'm having trouble with operating Dell 110T LTO2 drives in a PowerVault 132T library.
Environment: - W2k3, HBA Qlogic 2340, FC attached Dell Powervault 132T library with 2 Dell 110T LTO2 drives - TSM device driver for library (http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&uid=swg21177112) and IBM device drivers for the drives (http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&context=SSGSG7&q1=110T&uid=swg21082581&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en)
I am able to define both drives and library, as well as paths, in TSM sucessfully, but I'm having problems with write operations to the drive. F.e., when I try to label volumes in the library, the tape gets mounted in a drive, but no label is ever written and the process never ends (or at least not within 20 mins). Tape stays mounted in a drive and never gets dismounted. I've tried dozens of combinations of device drivers for the drives, but never succeeded. I see no error in the TSM Actlog or Windows Event log.
When I define library as RSM type (using native Dell device drivers for both library and tape drives) and use RSM for media handling, everything works fine. I can easily label volumes, perform backups and so on. Again, when I reconfigure the library and drive back to SCSI type and try to perform f.e. a backup of TSM database using media labelled in previous step (via RSM), the procedure repeats with the same result - robotics mount the tape in a drive and nothing happens. TSM server is still waiting for mount of a scratch media, eventhough the volume is already mounted.
I've tried to install TSM 5.2 even, but the result is the same.
It seems to me, that there must be a problem with device drivers, but maybe I'm missing something. Any ideas ?
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