Katherine,
Your slot 16 should be the slot where the tapes are taken out. You
should have an empty slot where the tapes come in and out. That would be
stated as slot 16. Once you run the checkin command insert the tape there
and then reply to the question.
Also, are you looking for a way to view the messages from the command line
through AIX?
Bill Wheeler
PDM Administrator
La-Z-Boy Incorporated
(734) 242-1444 x6170
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-----Original Message-----
From: Katherine Faella [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 8:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AIX and LTO 3583
Help! I am feeling quite dumb here, have searched the archives and read
the manuals all to no avail. It's probably just me ...
I have an IBM LTO 3583 library. I have successfully inserted tapes and
begun backing up with TSM. All
was going well. Recently I decided that it was time to use the library as
it was intended. Using DRM I
decided I should remove COPY tapes and DB Backup Tapes etc. and keep them
in my "vault". That was
easy. Now however I would like to put back in some of the tapes that have
expired. Here is where I am
having trouble.
We have one column in the library to hold tapes and one I/O port. I can
add new scratch tapes with label
libvolume ... checkin=scratch .. but I can not seem to get those old
used and expired tapes back in.
I have tried the checking libvolume xxxxx scratch=yes. I am prompted
(through the actlog) to insert the tape in slot 16. Here is my problem.
Which slot is 16? I have tried a couple of different ones and get
ANR8306I 007: Insert LTO volume 111ACH R/W into the slot
with element number 16 of library LTOLIB within 58
minutes; issue 'REPLY' along with the request ID
when
ready. </mv>
11/13/2001 13:49:19 ANR2017I Administrator OPERATIONS issued command:
REPLY 7
11/13/2001 13:49:19 ANR8499I Command accepted.
11/13/2001 13:52:12 ANR8300E I/O error on library LTOLIB (OP=00006C03,
CC=314,
KEY=05, ASC=3B, ASCQ=0E,
SENSE=70.00.05.00.00.00.00.0A.00.00.00.00.3B.0E.E2.00.00-
.00., Description=The source slot or drive was
empty in
an attempt to move a volume). Refer to Appendix
B in the
'Messages' manual for recommended action.
11/13/2001 13:52:12 ANR9999D mmsscsi.c(10846): Could not move volume
111ACH
from slot 16 to slot 256.
11/13/2001 13:52:12 ANR8841I Remove volume from slot 16 of library
LTOLIB at
your convenience.
11/13/2001 13:52:13 ANR8426E CHECKIN LIBVOLUME for volume 111ACH in
library
LTOLIB failed.
11/13/2001 13:52:13 ANR0985I Process 1515 for CHECKIN LIBVOLUME
running in the
BACKGROUND completed with completion state
FAILURE at
13:52:13.
I do not know how to tell what slot is 16. Help! Pretty soon I will run
out of new tapes to add and I can't get the old ones back in. I feel
foolish. It seems like this should be easy. Help! And will we're at it,
how can I log on an admin client (in line mode) with mount messages being
sent to this session.
Thanks in advance for any and all help, including RTFM - just tell me what
page number!
