Richard, You should use DRM feature, which provides a nice way handling offsite volumes, and avoids the kind of problem you're facing : "move drm wherestate=mountable tostate=.... remove=untileefull". That command tells TSM to checkout the volumes having "mountable" status, until the I/O station is full. If some volumes are still to be checked out, re-isssue the command ! (search "move drm" in admin guide, if you're not familiar with that command) HTH.
Cheers. Arnaud ************************************************************************ ****** Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland, CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01 Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ ****** -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Hammersley Sent: Monday, 09 October, 2006 16:01 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: how to determine if bulk loader / input output slots are full in 3584 library I have an IBM 3584 tape library with a 10 slot bulk loader. Is there a way to determine if all the input/output slots in the bulk loader are full ? Presently I'm running TSM version 5.3.2.4. Under 5.1.x.x when one tried to checkout a volume and the bulk loader's input/output slots were full TSM would just put the volume in an empty library slot and "query libv" would not see it. One would have figure out that the volume did not eject, figure out what slot it was in, and then manually eject it via the LED screen on the library. I'm trying to avoid the above. Especially when a "fill in" person has to take care of the volume checkout process. Richard Hammersley
