This may sound basic, but have you checked to make sure that the other drives are online from a Tivoli perspective? If you issue the "q drive" command, tivoli will show you the drive statuses.
J. Neal
From: Lawrence Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mountlimit=drives Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:27:17 -0500
Hi: Sessions and processes seem to be sinlge threading using a single drive in a 4 drive library. the dev is set to mountlimit=drive. anyone know what else might cause this bottleneck?
As shown below, library with 4 drives only shows a mount waiting on a volume when another is dismounting.
tsm: BACKUP>q mount ANR8379I Mount point in device class 3494BTAPE is waiting for the volume mount to complete, status: WAITING FOR VOLUME. ANR8331I 3590 volume 001038 is mounted R/W in drive 3590RMT4 (/dev/rmt4), status: DISMOUNTING. ANR8334I 2 matches found.
Device Class Name: 3494BTAPE Device Access Strategy: Sequential
Storage Pool Count: 7 Device Type: 3590 Format: DRIVE Est/Max Capacity (MB): 40,960.0 Mount Limit: DRIVES Mount Wait (min): 60 Mount Retention (min): 5 Label Prefix: ADSMVOL Library: IBM3494B Directory: Server Name: Retry Period: Retry Interval: Shared: Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN Last Update Date/Time: 02/12/04 11:34:44
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