Re: Cranky LTO tape drive

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Worth a try.  Right now the drive is assigned to my second LPAR. Not 
sure if I'd have to bounce the whole BladeCenter chassis to reset 
something.  I just IPL'd my first partition a day or so ago so I might 
try assigning the tape to the first LPAR and see if I get the same result...

So, this is a JS12 on a BC-S that also has 3 HS21's in it.  The original 
"down time" goal was to back up each partition and the then back up the 
storage used by the SAS Storage modules and then blow away the SAS 
storage and reconfigure it *correctly* this time and then restore the 
data.    Tape seemed the safest way to go.  I know I can back up the 
VM's on the HS21's without tape but it was the IBM i partitions and the 
VIOS configuration that was most problematic.

I have one 7.1 LPAR and one 7.2 LPAR on this Power 6 Blade and if I 
could use Virtual Tape to save AND restore the entire system, I might 
head that direction, although tape would be my preference.

Pete Helgren
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On 12/29/2016 6:29 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> Have you tried an IPL?
>
> Failing that have you tried going into SST and doing an IOA and/or IOP
> reset?
>
> Low probability but close to your last ditch effort.  Was quite common
> that I had to do this on my old LTO 1 drive.  In fact, it was so often
> that I had the instructions typed up and taped to the unit.
>
>
> Rob Berendt