David, I have run into a problem with SAN clients where this can happen. Looks like it takes a bounce of the server to recover. The problem appears to happen if you shutdown a SAN agent and a drive still has a tape mounted for it and a thread gets reused that did not get cleaned up properly.
If you are not using a SAN client check the status of the volume. By doing a q volume xxxxxx f=d and seeing if it is unavailable. Just update to READWRITE or READONLY and you will be fine. I typically do a READONLY and do a move data command to make sure the data is good on the tape unless I know exactly the condition that caused the tape to go unavailable. The most common is a dismount failure. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -----Original Message----- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:deehre01@;LOUISVILLE.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Volume not available? >Are any of your drives offline? Do you have any drives available? What >happens when you do an audit vol 700270 fix=yes? > No dirves offline. Lots of drives available. The audit vol fails with a "ANR2321W Audit volume process terminated for volume 700270 - storage media inaccessible " David
