I/O errors

From: Sheldon Lee Wen (sheldon.leewen@cgi.com)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 09:41:52 EDT


Hi again,

     
   On the weekend my unix machine got moved and hooked up to a new tape
device library and mdr.
I can see the tape devices, and controller and moved tapes around, etc.
However, I can only use one of the drives. (I have a MSL5000 series
library with four drives). Only the third one works. The rest give me
i/o errors when I try to put or remove data to/from the tapes. The
strange thing is that the windows machines can use all of the devices.
The can even use them using a windows shareware program called tapeio
(but tapeio sees drive 0 as drive3, etc).

Does anyone have any ideas? I took a look at the hwmgr output and I
don't see any problems right off the bat:

bash-2.04# /sbin/hwmgr view dev
 HWID: Device Name Mfg Model Location
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------
    3: /dev/dmapi/dmapi
    4: scp (unknown) (unknown)
    5: /dev/kevm
   29: /dev/disk/floppy0c 3.5in floppy fdi0-unit-0
   36: /dev/disk/dsk0c i2o_bs iop-0-dev-0
   61: /dev/disk/cdrom0c COMPAQ CRD-8402B bus-1-targ-0-lun-0
   63: /dev/cport/scp0 HSV110 (C)COMPAQ bus-0-targ-0-lun-0
   65: /dev/disk/dsk2c COMPAQ HSV110 (C)COMPAQ IDENTIFIER=1
   69: /dev/cport/scp2 DATA ROUTER bus-0-targ-2-lun-0
   70: /dev/ntape/tape0 COMPAQ SuperDLT1 bus-0-targ-2-lun-1
   71: /dev/ntape/tape1 COMPAQ SuperDLT1 bus-0-targ-2-lun-2
   72: /dev/ntape/tape2 COMPAQ SuperDLT1 bus-0-targ-2-lun-3
   74: /dev/ntape/tape3 COMPAQ SuperDLT1 bus-0-targ-2-lun-5
   76: /dev/changer/mc0 MSL5000 Series bus-0-targ-2-lun-4

Thanks.

Sheldon Lee Wen
Ottawa Data Center, UNIX Services
Sheldon.leewen@cgi.com
 
 



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