Actually it's a little worse....
I found the hard way that the tapes which been emptied by move data or
reclamation also needed to be deleted. TSM somehow seems to record the
tape density/capacity when the tape is added to a stg pool. I had, um,
several tapes that would fail mounts and generate a 'No tape drives
available' message. It took a little while to piece what was going on,
but after I deleted the vols and checked them back in they have all been
quite useable.
Al Barth
Joe Faracchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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03/07/02 12:00 PM
Please respond to Joe Faracchio
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Subject: Re: No drives available - UPDATE
If its the same or similiar problem I had in converting from
a 3466-C00 (tsm 3) to a 3466-C01(tsm 4) but using the same 3494/3590s
then its because your system thinks the tapes are ONLY capatible in
READ/ONLY mount modes.
Even though you are mounting a tape for RESTORE if you look closely
you will find the tapes are being mounted R/W. If the system sees
a tape R/O it will mount it R/O and this bypasses the problem.
The system thinks the tapes were originally written using heads
(B1/E1/whatever) that are write-incompatible with your 'current/new'
(even though the same) drives.
IBM offered the above workaround but I know of no APAR to adddress it
with a fix. I think TIVOLI doesn't understand IBM's religious belief
in upward compatibility and so TSM 4 doesn't have a bridge from
ADSM/TSM 3.
If I'm right then your works cut out for you. You have to move data or
reclamate all FILLING tapes and make all FULL tapes READ/ONLY until they
are re-cycled. that's what I had to do. SIGH.
hope this helps.
... joe.f.
Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley
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2 weeks left!!!
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Jason Morgan wrote:
> Earlier I posted a question regarding a migration problem I was having
> while trying to restore to a 3590 with a tape stacker.
>
> I was encountering a no drives availabel while trying to restore.
>
> To overcome this problem, I had to mark the volume as READ ONLY. The
> restore went throught without a hitch.
>
> Can anyone tell me what TSM does differently on a restore when a tape is
> marked as READ ONLY instead of READ WRITE ?
>
> I think it has something to do with mount points.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jason
>
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