Mark,
We had a similar issue with our W2K Library clients. The way around
it is to either reboot the server or use NTUTIL to close the drives. the
issue is a scsi reserve has been set on these drives therefore now they are
back online they have the reserve still in place which will not allow the
drives to be used.
Mike
Regards,
Michael Swinhoe
Storage Management Group
Zurich Financial Services
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Stephen Rivers
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"ADSM: Dist Stor
Manager"
I was having this problem with IBM Ultrium LTO drives in an IBM 3583
library
until I upgraded the firmware for the drives and the library itself. And
the
RMU for good measure.
I didn't find out what the original problem was.
Regards,
Steve Rivers
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From: Mark Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 15 July 2003 22:04
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Subject: Re: q drive = status unknown
Thanks Kenny, that did it. Still trying to figure out what caused it.
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From: Barnes, Kenny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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You might want to check the defined path as well. They have to be defined
as on-line there as well.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 4:08 PM
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Subject: q drive = status unknown
We have two drives that show state unknown when queried with f=d.
According to TSM:
"Unknown The drive begins in drive state unknown as a result of being
defined, as a result of server initialization, or as a result of having its
status updated to online."
We have had to update the status of these two drives to online after some
tapes had knocked them offline.
The drives are now online but TSM is not using them.
Is there a way to change the drive state to empty or ready for operation?
Storage Management Server for Windows 2000- Version 5, Release 1, Level 6.3
Thanks,
Mark Bertrand
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