Yes experience is a great teacher, however, during the recovery of the LIC a
screen will pop up that askes you which device you would like to use. You
can pick the appropriate tape device there. If it can't find it at that
point, you won't be using it anyway...
It's not as hard as it used to be when you had to know the bus number up
front, and the card position of the adapter etc.
--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2019 6:06 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: How to unload a stuck tape on a 3573 LTO7 Half Height drive
If you go into STRSST
1. Start a service too
7. Hardware service manager
4. Failed and non-reporting hardware resources You can delete the old
resource name.
3. Locate resource by resource name
Will allow you to use the following to rename your new resource name to the
old.
2=Change detail
And it will even change the resource name on your new device description to
match.
Day to day operations it may not matter.
But do you need the stress during a full system restore figuring out that
your tape IPL device is not TAP01?
Sure, anyone who has been through this considers this a no brainer during a
restore but some do it more than others.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 11:18 PM
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Cc: Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: How to unload a stuck tape on a 3573 LTO7 Half Height drive
IBM CE was able to manually eject the tape, (drive had to be disassembled).
Drive was replaced.
New drive was created with new device name and new resource.
Had to delete the old, rename the new back to current.
Paul
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Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 9:07 AM
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Subject: RE: How to unload a stuck tape on a 3573 LTO7 Half Height drive
Tried all of the suggestions.
Time to open a Hardware PMR.
Paul
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Justin Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 8:50 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: How to unload a stuck tape on a 3573 LTO7 Half Height drive
The only time I had to deal with a stuck tape, I had to place a hardware
service call. The tech had to break the tape to remove it.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 9:41 PM
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Cc: Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: How to unload a stuck tape on a 3573 LTO7 Half Height drive
I have a LTO7 volume that will not unload from a 3573 tape library.
These are half height drives.
The volume actually got stuck on the load, nothing written.
I remember on the 3582 FH drives, there was a button you could hold in that
would force a unload.
I'm note finding/seeing that same button the 3573 HH.
Any thoughts from the group.
Thank You
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Paul Steinmetz
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