ANR8838E
I/O error on drive drive name: excessive unit attentions received from device.

Explanation

An operation to the drive failed with a device unit attention. These are normally cleared when the operation is retried, but in this case subsequent recover and retry attempts persistently fail with unit attention. This indicates a device failure.

System action

The operation fails.

User response

See accompanying error messages and the system error logs to determine any reason for the drive failure. Hardware diagnostics may be required. It may be necessary to manually unload the volume and mark the drive offline with the UPDATE DRIVE command.