Geoffrey,
I've seen this several times on my 3494. One of the drives is giving
"false" status of availability back to TSM. You should be able to
determine the drive by examining the TSM activity log (q actlog) and
looking for which drive has NOT had any successful mount requests. The
cause (at
>This has been going on since this morning. I don't get it because the drives
>are available if I q drive.
Geoff - In my experience, the Query Drive command is an unreliable indicator
of drive health. SHOW LIBRary is more indicative. The mtlib command
is also helpful, on a 3494, to reve
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Subject: No Drives Available (Help)
For whatever reason I've had, what TSM says is drive problems.
08/06/01 09:33:31 ANR8447E No drive
Hi
I got the same problem a few weeks ago. After updating a TSM 3.1 to 4.13. The
3494 mounted a tape once and then the drives are currently available in library
and ANR8447E.
I deleted the drives from TSM and OS (AIX 4.3.3 .M6 newest ATape and ATLDD ) .
Booting the machine. Drives are available on
For whatever reason I've had, what TSM says is drive problems.
08/06/01 09:33:31 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library
3494LIB.
This has been going on since this morning. I don't get it because the drives
are available if I q drive. I also see mounts if I q mount. All 4 drive
