4mm tape drive problem

[BFOJ]

Our 43p's use the IBM 7206 005 (4mm) tape drive. Having a hardware problem, tape won't eject and one of the LED's is flashing amber. Know where I can get some technical data on this tape drive in order to troubleshoot it?

 

[aixqueen]

_______________________________________
| Indicator Lights |
|_______________________________________|____________
| Ready | Read/Write | Disturbance | |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Status |__________|______________|_____________|___________
Flashing | Off | Off | POST or diag
cartridge running |__________|______________|_____________|___________________
Off | Off | Off | POST ended and no
cartridge |__________|______________|_____________|_________________
| On | Off | Off | Cartridge inserted
- tape ready |__________|______________|_____________|________________
| On | Flashing | Off | Tape in motion or
cleaning. |__________|______________|_____________|_______________
| Off | Off | Flashing | Internal fault/
Hi humidity |__________|______________|_____________|_______________
Off/On | Off/Flashing | On | Cleaning required/
| | | | Poor quality tape
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Some commands that may reset the error condition
( flashing light )

1) diag -c -d rmtX

OR

2) tctl -f /dev/rmtX reset

... followed by

tctl -f /dev/rmtX offline
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microcode

http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/mdownload/download.html

Tape Help

http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/mdownload/tapewhdr.html

tape install guide

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/library/hardware_docs/tapes.html