RE: Assistance with tape drive

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You could also go into SST and re-ipl the IOP.

Jerry

Quoting "Haase, Justin C." <justin.haase@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 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. 
> 
> 
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> 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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