-----Gary Lee wrote: ----- >Is there a way to mount / dismount volumes in a particular drive in a >3494 library from the shell prompt? >I need to run tests on a ts1120 drive and the library is in a remote >location with no personell.
We used to have to do this as part of the disaster recovery process for our mainframe Linux TSM server (in more recent times the recovery configuration has included a TS3500 rather than a 3494). The commands we used were as follows: mtlib -l library -m -f drive -V volume mtlib -l library -d -f drive -n where 'library' is the library name (the same one you would specify for the 'device=' parameter when defining a server to library path in the TSM database), 'drive' is the tape drive special file (for example, '/dev/IBMtape0'), and 'volume' is the volume serial number. The '-n' on the dismount command causes the command to end as soon as it has asked the library to carry out the operation. In the absence of this option the command would not end until the library got the volume back into a storage cell.
