How to "UP" a drive

[ulsj]

Hi!

I´m running NB dc 4.5 MP3 in a SSO inviroment
I have Windows 2000 server only.
For som reason i can´t up one of the drives from the GUI.
The dialog wont come up.
If I take up details then the window with drive info is total gray.
Is there a way to up drive from command line.

/Ulf

 

[emotief]

two command I find very usefull for this
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmoprcmd -display
This tells you what tapes are loaded in which drives
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmdareq -display
This tells you what drives are up, down, reserved, and owner.

To up a drive on command line use:

vmoprcmd -h media_server -upbyname drive_name

This is the unix syntax. It should work on windows but the path will be different.

Good luck

 

[msleeper]

I've had this problem several times in the past. I can up the drive but it will quickly down itself again. Usually when this happens to me it means theres a problem with the drive. I've had them lose their SCSI id's, and also have tapes stuck in them. For the SCSI problem I had to reboot. For the stuck tape problem I had to manually eject the tape and then up the drive.

Hope this help,
Mark

 

[85235]

Hi
If the drive found "DOWN" quicky after put it UP, you may use "sgscan" to check whether all the drives are invalid or not? may be the SCSI controller found fault to lost the connection...!!