AIX tapeutil

p630#tapeutil

General Commands: 1. Open a Device 2. Close a Device 3. Device Info 4. Tape Drive Service Aids 5. Inquiry 6. Test Unit Ready 7. Reserve Device 9. Log Sense Page 10. Mode Sense Page 11. Release Device Q. Quit Program

8. Request Sense

Medium Changer Commands: 12. Element Information 13. Position To Element 14. Element Inventory 15. Exchange Medium 16. Move Medium 17. Load/Unload Medium 18. Initialize Element Status 19. Prevent/Allow Medium Removal

Tape Commands: 20. Query/Set Parameters 30. Read and Write Tests

21. Prevent/Allow Medium Removal 31. Unload Tape 22. Rewind 23. Erase Gap 32. Erase 33. Write Filemarks 34. Backward Space Filemarks 35. Backward Space Records 36. Query/Set Tape Position 37. Read or Write Files 38. Query/Create/Change Partition 39. Report Density Support

24. Forward Space Filemarks 25. Forward Space Records 26. Space to End of Data 27. Log Sense 28. Display Message 29. Synchronize Buffers

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Tapeutil and IBM .. I have a question to ask. Currently I'm having a problem to write to tape using TSM. I run tapeutil test as below on AIX 5.3 and IBM TS3100 Tape Library:

# tapeutil -f /dev/rmtX rwtest -b 1024 -c 10 -r 2 (ok)

# tapeutil -f /dev/rmtX rwtest -b 153600 -c 10 -r 2 (Operation failed with errno 5: I/O error)

IBM has collected the dump file for analysis and the report says that : "There is no problem with the tape drive , the problem is with TSM "

Is that correct or IBM just bluff me.

# tapeutil General Commands: 1. Open a Device 5. Inquiry 9. Log Sense Page 2. Close a Device 6. Test Unit Ready 10. Mode Sense Page 3. Device Info 7. Reserve Device 11. Release Device 4. Tape Drive Service Aids 8. Request Sense Q. Quit Program

Medium Changer Commands: 12. Element Information 16. Move Medium 13. Position To Element 17. Load/Unload Medium 14. Element Inventory 18. Initialize Element Status 15. Exchange Medium 19. Prevent/Allow Medium Removal

Tape Commands: 20. Query/Set Parameters 30. Read and Write Tests 21. Prevent/Allow Medium Removal 31. Unload/Load Tape 22. Rewind 32. Erase 23. Erase Gap 33. Write Filemarks 24. Forward Space Filemarks 34. Backward Space Filemarks 25. Forward Space Records 35. Backward Space Records 26. Space to End of Data 36. Query/Set Tape Position 27. Log Sense 37. Read or Write Files 28. Display Message 38. Get Drive Encryption Settings 29. Synchronize Buffers 39. Report Density Support 40. Test Encryption Key Path/Setup

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1. AIX 2. tapeutil 3. 1 4. /dev/rmt0 5. 1Read/Write 6. 3Device Info 7. 5Inquiry 0 8. 6Test Unit Read 9. 18Initialize Element Status 10. 14Element Inventory

11. 12. 16Move Medium 13. 14 Element Inventory 14. 2 Close a Device 15. Q

1. AIX 2. tapeutil 3. 1 4. /dev/smc0 5. 1 Read/Write 6. 3 Device Info 7. 5 Inquiry 0 8. 6 Test Unit Read 9. 22Rewind 10. 30 Read and Write Tests 11. 1 Read/Write. 12. 31Unload Tape 13. 2 Close a Device 14. Q