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Old 02-11-2016
AIX 7.1 cannot discover drives from TS3310 tape library
Good day!

Need help in checking my AIX 7.1 box.
After we have finished zoning our TS3200 and TS3310 tape libraries, we installed the Atape driver,

Code:
# lslpp -L |grep tape
  Atape.driver              11.7.7.0    C     F    IBM AIX Enhanced Tape and
  devices.fcp.tape.rte      7.1.3.15    C     F    FC SCSI Tape Device Software 
  devices.iscsi.tape.rte     7.1.0.0    C     F    iSCSI Tape Software
  devices.scsi.tape.diag    7.1.1.15    C     F    SCSI Tape Device Diagnostics 
  devices.scsi.tape.rspc     7.1.0.0    C     F    RISC PC SCSI Tape Device
  devices.scsi.tape.rte      7.1.3.0    C     F    SCSI Tape Device Software

After refresh of devices [cfgmgr -v], only the TS3200 drives could be seen.
Is there something that we might have missed?

Code:
# lsdev -Cc tape
rmt0 Available 04-00-01 Other FC SCSI Tape Drive
rmt1 Available 04-00-01 Other FC SCSI Tape Drive
rmt2 Available 05-00-01 Other FC SCSI Tape Drive
rmt3 Available 05-00-01 Other FC SCSI Tape Drive

Code:
# tpautoconf -a
TPAC60 - - - -1~-1~-1~-1 2 - - - 0 - - - - - - - 0 0 - - DPMS1 4 - - 0 - - - -
 TPAC60 IDC-IBM-LTO6-TLD0-DRV01 IBM~~~~~ULT3580-HH6~~~~~E6R3 /dev/rmt0.1 -1~-1~-1~-1 1 0 0 1 8 3 - - - 10WT026910 - 6 0 1 - - DPMS1 0 - - 0 - - - -
 TPAC60 IDC-IBM-LTO6-TLD0-DRV02 IBM~~~~~ULT3580-HH6~~~~~E6R3 /dev/rmt1.1 -1~-1~-1~-1 1 0 0 3 8 3 - - - 10WT026865 - 6 0 1 - - DPMS1 0 - - 0 - - - -
 TPAC60 IDC-IBM-LTO6-TLD0-DRV03 IBM~~~~~ULT3580-HH6~~~~~E6R3 /dev/rmt6.1 -1~-1~-1~-1 1 0 0 2 8 3 - - - 10WT026951 - 6 0 1 - - DPMS1 0 - - 0 - - - -
 TPAC60 IDC-IBM-LTO6-TLD0-DRV04 IBM~~~~~ULT3580-HH6~~~~~E6R3 /dev/rmt7.1 -1~-1~-1~-1 1 0 0 4 8 3 - - - 10WT026952 - 6 0 1 - - DPMS1 0 - - 0 - - - -

Note: tpautoconf is a Netbackup command Smilie

Thanks in advance.

- alain

---------- Post updated at 06:15 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:11 PM ----------

Hi,
Was able to resolve the problem by installing an updated version of Atape driver from 11.7.7.0 to 12.6.7.0.
After cfgmgr -v, all drives including the robots were already discovered.

Thanks!

- alain
Last edited by alainken3; 02-11-2016 at 03:55 AM.. Reason: Add CODE and ICODE tags.
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