Herbie, That may be another possibility. However, the clunkers I worked with in the past seemed to require a different touch. If I had a tape drive go offline/boxed because of a hardware error in the drive and the drive had to be repaired, quite frequently a 'vary online' wouldn't work. Don't ask me why, but that's how it was. We assumed that it was a problem with the RS6000 masquerading as control unit not properly recognizing that the drive was OK again, not resetting itself internally and not properly communicating that fact to the M/F. A reboot of the control unit always helped get everything back to working again.
Regards, Ulrich Krueger -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 09:39 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3590 TAPE Drive F-BOX status Ulrich, The last time I had a boxed one... on a R14... I took all the tape units offline, took the chpid offline, Varied the chpid online, varied the units online, and it was OK. I normally don't go near the hardware inside the Steel casings... Regards Herbie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
