RE: Assistance with tape drive

["Haase, Justin C." <justin.haase@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The card that runs the tape in the 170 is the base controller, isn't it?
Wouldn't that tend to anger the system some?

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Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
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Kingland Systems Corporation

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Draper
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:27 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Assistance with tape drive

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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> -----Original Message-----
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> [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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