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Atape Drive not recognized properly in AIX

  • 1.  Atape Drive not recognized properly in AIX

    Posted Wed October 08, 2014 10:50 AM

    Originally posted by: Cognos_help


    Hi All

    I have LTO2 tape drive connected to a B80 running AIX 4.3 (very old but cannot upgrade due to our apps). It work perfectly with Atape Drive for the last couple of years. Suddenly after rebooting this server,  the drive is seen as  'Other SCSI Tape Drive' instead of 'LTO Ultrium Tape Drive' .

    I tried to re-boot , re-install Atape Drive and reconfigure using cfgmgr command but no hope. Any idea how to fix it? Below is the info of this server currently:

    # lslpp -l Atape.driver

    Atape.driver               8.4.9.0  COMMITTED  IBM AIX Enhanced Tape and Medium Changer Device Driver

    #lsdev -Cc tape

    rmt0 Available 10-89-00-0,0 Other SCSI Tape Drive

     

     

     

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  • 2.  Re: Atape Drive not recognized properly in AIX

    Posted Sat October 11, 2014 06:22 PM

    Originally posted by: Cognos_help


    Found it. The technical guy changed the LTO tape drive without inform us. The key finding here in AIX 4.3 can reconize LTO1 and LTO2 tape drive (with Atape drive SW). When the guy changed to LTO3 tape drive, AIX 4.3 shows as "Other SCSI Tape drive".

    The interesting here is while AIX 4.3 reconize LTO3 tape drive as "Other SCSI Tape drive", it still is able to write into the LTO3 tapes. But I cannot use this to read my backup tapes because they has been written using Atape drive, not "Other SCSI Tape drive".

    After changing back to original LTO tape, everything are OK now.
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