Internal tape drive missing on P630 / 7028-6C4 ??

"Sterve" <steve.blalock@southernregional.org> wrote:
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>Hi all,
>
>Anybody seen this before? Our Tivoli server only reports having the
>external Ultrium
>drives:
>
>root@tsmsvr:/> lsdev -Cc tape
>rmt0 Available 11-08-00-2,0 IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive
>rmt1 Available 1D-08-00-3,0 IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive
>rmt2 Available 1D-09-00-1,0 IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive
>smc0 Available 1D-09-00-1,1 IBM 3583 Library Medium Changer
>root@tsmsvr:/>
>
>The 4mm internal (I believe a 6158) doesn't show up in the list.
>It doesn't appear in smit -> Devices -> Tape Drives -> List all defined
>or Add a Tape drive.
>
>cfgmgr doesn't find it (with no args). diag doesn't report it as
>missing.
>It is powered up, as it accepts a new tape and rewinds it to the ready
>state.
>The OS level (5100-03) is a bit old, but performing as it should.
>I inherited DDS4 mksysb tapes from this system, so it did work at some
>point before I got here.
>
>Any ideas on what this could be?
>Thanks much in advance.[/color]

Sounds like it is not conneced to the SCSI adapter.
Or a problem with the interface.

Regards,

Ted.
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