Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi, if a tape drive goes offline in an application, and looks ok in AIX, from the lsdev -C | grep -i tape, it shows as available. Are there any useful commands for working with tape drives and devices, to analyse them further and take them on and offline?

Many thanks
Steve

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

..sorry, should have mentioned, not internal drives, but external 3494 Library Drives.

Thanks again

Originally posted by: cd3lgado

Hi

You can use tctl command of AIX or if you have installed the Atape driver you cna use the tapeutil program.

Hope this helps

Originally posted by: cd3lgado

Hi

You can use tctl command of AIX or if you have installed the Atape driver you cna use the tapeutil program.

Hope this helps

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

You can use mtlib to perform functions on the 3494.