On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, David Longo wrote:
> Can you see if tape is physically in library or in a drive?
David,
It is physically in the library...i can see it. Also i can do an audit
vol on the tape on either side of it, and they mount fine.
> Do q libvol and see if it shows up.
Yep, it's there...
> do q vol 0045E3 f=d and see status.
Status is R/W, one write error. TSM had marked it R/O after the write
error, but after it passed a R/O audit vol, i updated it to R/W (to see if
it caught another write error). This is how it all started with this
particular "problem" tape.
> do q actlog (with some time like begind=-1) sea=0045E3
> and see what has been sequence of evnts with this tape.
The first error was "An I/O error occurred while accessing drive TAPE1
(/dev/rmt1) for QRYINQUIRY operation"
This is a new one on me.....so the write failed, and TSM marked it R/O.
> an Audit library lib_name checklabel=barcode
> will sync *SM with library. (Do this with NO TAPES IN USE) On my 3575-L32 this
>takes about 20 seconds.
I let audit library run again for about 45 minutes, and it just sat
there, doing nothing....
> To checkout a tape that may be damaged use option checklabel=no. A
> damaged won't checkout as the mount fails.
I tried with checklabel=no and got the same "Volume in use error".
AIX diag reports no problems, but there is some TAPE_ERR4 messages in the
error log when the write failed. I'm checking these out now...but other
than this one volume, TSM seems to be running fine.
Thanks a lot for the tips! If ya'll can think of anything else i might
try i'd really appreciate it...
later!
Ray
