Hi All I have a problem I'd like your opinions on
My customer is running a Windows2000 TSM server (5.3.4.0). Library is 3584 with 4 each LTO2 and LTO3 drives, LTO2 media. The largest clients use storage agents to access the tapes directly. I'm getting errors ANR8779E Unable to open drive mtx.y.z.n error number=170 This is addressed in http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=ANR8779E&uid=swg21269235&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en The server is Windows2000 and already is using the device driver that is supposed to contain the fix. There will be no later versions of device driver for this OS so there is no hope for a direct cure. The readme for the Atape driver states that there are two versions of the driver, one for TSM that allows only one open at a time and one for use with Windows RSM that allows for multiple opens. See para 12 of ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Windows/Win2000/Latest/IBMTape.W200x.Readme.txt Since only TSM is going to be using these drives, is it reasonable to install the non-TSM version of the driver to get around the problem? Is anyone doing this, or developed another workaround for the ANR8779E problem. Alternatively, is it possible to revert to an earlier version of the driver that doesn't exhibit thr problem. I'm floating in an unsupported sea here and looking for a life preserver! Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Sydney Australia
