Hi, Thanks to all of you for your help - slot 16 is the I/O port. All I had to do was put the tape in that port and the 3583 moved it into a slot! I should have thought of that!
I do have a follow-up question, or should I say another question. When I use the command move drmedia * wherestate=mountable tostate=vault to move my DBbackup and COPY storage pool tapes offsite, my filling copy tapes are moved as well. Is there an easy way to move one or more back into the library so that I can continue filling it/them? These tapes have such large capacity I hate to see too many sitting practically empty in my "vault". Thanks again for all your help, Katherine Faella University of Rhode Island >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, >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!
