Ray,
I had the exact thing happen to me last week at a site with a 3570. After
removing the tape from the drive, TSM still reported that the tape was in
the drive regardless of all my efforts. I had the top off the robot and I
could see that TSM tried to perform an unload on the drive every time I
brought it back up, even though the tape was out of the library.
Finally, I inserted the tape that TSM said was in the drive using the
service menu on the front panel and loading the tape through slot 31. I
could then unload it via TSM and everything was back to normal.
Bill Smoldt SSSI
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Ray
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 5:00 PM
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Subject: Re: 3570 tape stuck??
Well further digging and i disovered one of the two drives marked as
UnAvailable in TSM. I removed the library cartridge and the lights on the
front of the drive are blinking indicating a fault condition.
Rebooting the drive and restarting TSM, TSM polls the drive then marks
it UnAvailable. I think it's hardware. I've placed a service call with
IBM.
I did get an audit library to finish and got this error:
ANR8834E Library volume 0045E3 is still present in library
3570LIB drive TAPE1 (/dev/rmt1), and must be removed manually.
Which seems to say to me that TSM thinks the tape is still mounted, but
can't check since the drive is unavailable. This explains why i'm unable
to mount or check it out. If TSM would just look, it would see the tape
is in the LIBRARY, NOT in the drive, hahah. Ah well, i have a 3583
waiting to be installed, and i hope it is more robust than the 3570.
The 3570 always seemed a little flaky...
Thanks all for the suggestions...
later!
Ray
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Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Administrator Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support
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