On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:01:48 -0600, John Benik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Our environment consists of 2 STK SL8500 libraries and 40 9940 tape >drives. We are using the 9940 tape for our HSM data and we can see a tape >mounted several times, but then it appears the tape gets stuck. We have >to issue and STK dismount command and sometimes we have to issue an MVS >unload to clear the problem. Has anybody had a similiar problem with STK >equipment? > We use 9940s for TSM and for duplex (DR) copies of VSM MVCs. Most of the problems I have seen with stuck tapes are at DR because of shipment of tapes. The leader blocks seem to be more sensative than 3490 media. The 9840 media is much better in that respect. So if you are having many problems with this my best suggestion is to review the physical aspects of the tape handling with the people that do so and have them check the leader blocks to make sure they are positioned correctly prior to entering tapes into the SL8500. BTW, are you using pass-through between your 2 SL8500's? If so, please contact me offline. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
