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When you say blinking, did the Drive's LED panel have any digit on it?

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Devd damaged?


Perhaps delete the device and recreate? I don't recall if it was V5.3 or
V5.4, I had to delete the device and IPL for it to
auto-discover/auto-config. There was some issue that wouldn't let me
recreate it manually.



Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer – ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
OCEAN User Group

<http://www.ocean400.org>






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From: bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: LTO backup drive failing?
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:04:27 +0000

I have an external IBM Ultrium LTO drive - 3580-003, attached to an i5
520 that I *think* might be failing. The last three mornings the backup job
has been stuck in an EVTW status with the drive's activity light blinking.
The job log shows that only the first library has been saved. My guess is
that it's attempting to write the library to tape, but the tape is just
spinning. The only thing I can think that I did different is that I
actually cleaned it with a cleaning cartridge the day before this began.
Yes, I've cleaned it before, with the same cartridge, about 6 months ago...

The backup job is just a CL that begins with SAVLIB *ALLUSR, then does a
SAVDLO, SAVSECDTA, SAVCFG, and SAV. The backup normally takes around 3
hours to finish completely, but it is getting stuck on this first library
for over 5 hours. (We're a really, really small shop)

There are no obvious errors that I can find. After some digging, I found
the Service Action Log in the Hardware Service Manager of SST, and two NEW
entries are shown here for both resource DC03 and TAP02 (which is the
problem drive). So I guess that is proof that *something* is wrong.

My next step is to place a service request with IBM, but thought I would
post here to see if anyone had any ideas what might be wrong. The tape
drive was purchased used almost two years ago.

Thanks for any input.

Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk, Inc.

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