I have observed that the tape drive dismounts the tape at the end of the transaction it is processing and mounts the tape in another drive if available. Now, that may have been just a coincidence.
Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -----Original Message----- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:deehre01@;LOUISVILLE.EDU] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Varying tape drives offline Anyone know what happens when you have processes/sessions running and using tape drives and vary the drives offline with the command: update drive LIB DRIVE online=no Do the tapes get dismounted? Processes/sessions terminate? Data corrupted? 3590 drives in a 3494 library running TSM 5.1.1.6 on AIX 5.1 if it makes any difference. David Ehresman
