Tape drive defined

UNIX AIX
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Hello everyone

I have a problem with one of my drives in an aix box. The library is a 3583 and Aix is 5.3 TL9

The problem was that the fibre channel not work and I change the fibre but when I logging to the aix box I got this in the rmt3

lsdev | grep rmt
rmt0        Available 03-08-00-6,0  LVD SCSI 4mm Tape Drive
rmt1        Available 05-08-02      IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt2        Available 05-08-02      IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt3        Defined   05-08-02      IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt4        Available 05-08-02      IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)

I run cfgmgr to put the device available put doesn't work.

My question is how can I put available my rmt3 device ???

thanks for your comments.

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How many drives do you have physically / do you expect.

I would try to remove the device completely from the ODM -

rm -dl rmt3

and if possible reboot. If the connection between the device and your server is ok, than it should be available afterwards, if now I'd call hardware support and ask them for help.
Good luck,
kind regards
zxmaus

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Thanks for your reply zxmaus

I have 5 drives physically.

one 4mm and 4 drives (library model 3583)

Thanks again for the comments

4

Does the command errpt return anything relevent?

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Hello everyone

The problem about the tape defined was, on the switch there wasnt zone about this drive (rmt3) that�s why I can�t see on my server. I check in others servers and the same thing (tape drive defined).

Thanks anyway for your replys.

Greetings