Things always go better after a "few" beers :) (As it turns out I don't really have an answer for you) BUT..
I recall, the IBM 3494 has reserved slots for "lost misplaced" tapes - the homeless... This slot needs to be kept spare. Plus one for cleaning tapes, Customer Engineer Tapes etc ...... It never worried me much as the 3494 we had, had 2700 + slots... but on a smaller Library I can see your getting anxious. Could the above apply to the DELL maybe? Regards -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Stapleton Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2002 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dell 130T library is full From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of TSM Admin > We use a Dell 130T library with 2 DLT7000 drives and 30 slots. TSM only > appears to see 29 of the 30 slots. When we try to checkin > another tape, we > get an error stating that the library is full. We can only see 29 > tapes when > we have autoclean disables on the library. With it enabled, we > can only see > 28 slots. Slot 7 is used for a cleaning tape. Has anyone else encountered > this type of problem? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. A warm beer says that the empty slot is one reserved for a cleaner tape. Check your hardware manual to see if there's a way to load a cleaner cartridge through the front panel's I/O station. If there is, and you remove the cleaner from its present slot and load it by using the library itself, it'll go in that 30th slot. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Certified TSM consultant Certified AIX system engineer MSCE
