Re: Can't find my tape device anymore

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What's the value of QAUTOCFG in sys vals?

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 8:22 AM Lindstrom, Scott R. via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I got myself into a situation with my internal LTO2 drive on my 9407-515.
> Between a mixture of DSPTAP commands and SYSREQ 2 the tape device went
> into a state that I could not vary it on (it always failed).  So I decided
> (right or wrong) to delete the device description and the tape resource and
> then IPL the box, thinking that it would auto config on the way back up
> (auto config is on).
> After the IPL I had nothing; no DEVD, no tape resource, and even the
> hardware config printout does not show a tape device.  There are no failed
> or non-reporting resources. No attention lights on the system or tape drive.
> Any thoughts on what else I can try?
> Scott
>
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