Maybe the tapes don't have proper internal labels. Look at the LABEL
LIBVOLUME command.
Jim Sporer
At 10:11 AM 9/24/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>TSM Gurus,
>
>I found several reference to my problem in the archive but, did not find an
>explanation or a real fix for it. If I over looked it, I will shamefully
>take the time-out chair in the corner.
>
>Our TSM environment is relatively new (< 6 mos). We are running 4.1.3
>server on AIX 4.3.3 ML6 with a 3583 LTO library.
>
>The clients are all 4.1.3 AIX and NT. A few TDP clients for Exchange, M$SQL
>and DB2 on AIX.
>
>The problem is that I keep seeing several of my scratch volumes' status
>being changed from "scratch" to "private" and the "last use" column is
>blank. The first time I noticed this it was suggested, by our Business
>Partner, that the tapes were probably checked in improperly. I checked them
>out and then back in as scratch. Within the last two weeks I recall seeing
>several consecutively labeled volumes again with a status of "private" and
>no "last use". Again I changed their status back to scratch. This
>morning I see the same thing with the same group of tapes. I also happened
>to catch it in the activity log, stating that there were I/O errors on these
>volumes and the status change was to prevent re-access.
>
>If it were one or two tapes, I could accept it. But the fact that these
>seven tapes represent roughly 30% of the library's current population AND
>the fact that they are consecutively numbered AND have never previously been
>used, to me can't be explained as coincidental. The tapes and the labels
>arrived separately. So we can dismiss a error at the factory.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks
>
>David Taylor
>Senior Software Systems Engineer
>West Bend Mutual Insurance
>(262) 335-7077
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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