RE: Assistance with tape drive

It won't even load a cleaning tape either...so I am beginning to think its 
seen its last day of operation


On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:20:04 -0600, Haase, Justin C. wrote
> Had this happen once, did a shutdown (with power-off) and restart 
> and it "reset" the drive.  It's a shame that the 170 isn't 
> concurrent maint up there, or you could just remove/add the device 
> and that would power-cycle it.
> 
> So - I'd try the Windows solution - reboot!  (With restart *NO so you
> get the full power-off)  Other than that, I suppose it could be a bad
> cleaning tape and the drive is flagged as dirty.  Might be worth a shot
> trying a new cleaning tape before shutting down.
> 
> --
> Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
> IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5
> Kingland Systems Corporation
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas W. 
> Palme Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 1:56 PM To: Mid Range List 
> Subject: Assistance with tape drive
> 
> We have a 6390 tape drive in a 9406-170 that is immediately ejecting 
> the tapes today.  We have tried using the cleaning tape, and about five
> others (all brand new) and it loads them and immediately ejects the
> tape.
> 
> Everything was fine yesterday, we ran a full system backup without 
> any errors or problems......
> 
> I have checked the device and it is varied on, so I varied it off and
> back on again....no problems seem apparent so any suggestions or 
> hints would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Douglas
> 
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