Re: Tape Drive Failed During Backup - No Halt -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Tape Drive Failed During Backup - No Halt
From: Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:51:10 -0500
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If a vary off / on won't work the IOP that drives the IOA that tape drive is on may need to be reset. Since I'm betting dollars to donuts that IOA has DASD attached, it would require an IPL to accomplish.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC

On 9/27/2010 12:13 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Odds are high that you'll have to vary it off and on again before you can
reuse it.

But you can dabble around in STRSST,
1. Start a service tool
7. Hardware service manager
and
1. Product activity log

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Re: Tape Drive Failed During Backup - No Halt , Jerry Adams
Re: Tape Drive Failed During Backup - No Halt , rob

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