Dave,
Not to be picky, but what model HP3000 do you have?
Is this tape drive, internal or external?
What model tape drive is it?
I am guessing that Ldev 7 implies DDS, but one can never know for sure.
-Craig
--- On Thu, 1/7/10, Dave Powell, MMfab <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Dave Powell, MMfab <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: tape problems
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 3:01 PM
I'd appreciate comments on whether I should restart the system tonight, go
straight to trying to get a new tape drive, panic, or whatever (I'm on
support).
It worked for monday backup, failed tuesday & wednesday nights.
mpe is current: RELEASE: C.75.00 MPE/iX HP31900 C.45.05 USER VERSION:
C.75.05
Symptoms as follows
1: drive lights appear normal (nothing orange or blinking)
2: :showdev 7
LDEV AVAIL OWNERSHIP VOLID DEN ASSOCIATION
7 AVAIL
(with tape in the drive, nothing happening, ok so far)
3: when we insert a tape, there is no tape motion and we do not get any
console message about a tape being mounted.
3: backup job hangs on a line that says "DEVCTRL.MPEXL.TELESUP 7 ENABLE
DISABLE ONLINE" untill we abort it.
4: cleaning the drive, replacing tapes, etc, do not help.
5: Some devinfo commands work, like
:calc devinfo (7, "Available")
TRUE
:calc devinfo (7, "Ownership")
(the blank is ok because it is not owned at the time)
6: Other devinfo calls HANG THE SESSION (grumble) until we abortio the tape
drive.
:calc devinfo (7, "TapeWriteProtect")
^
Unable to get information about tape. (CIERR 9904)
:calc devinfo(7, "TAPEONLINE")
^
Unable to get information about tape. (CIERR 9904)
The "unable" lines appear only after I "abortio 7" from another session.
7: When I tried to store some files without any devinfo or devctrl, the
store hung with no visible activity. After 2 "abortio 7", the console
message finally appeared asking what device to use for the tape. Nothing
happened when I replied. After 2 more "abortio 7", got the same console
message again. Then I aborted it the job.
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