Re: tape going unavail

2003-09-05 Thread Richard Sims
> TSM server 5.1.0 running on aix 4.3.3 You mean, like, 5.1.0.0 ? A base level is not a good place to stay. There's been a lot of maintenance since then, which may fix odd problems you experience, and certainly give you a better position to get anything fixed. Richard Sims, BU

Re: tape going unavail

2003-09-05 Thread bkupmstr
Thanks for your reply Brenda, but the tape does get ejected from the drive but somehow TSM is getting confused. Its not really a library so we just go pull the tape out. But occasionally it goes to unavailable - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-

Re: tape going unavail

2003-09-05 Thread Brenda Collins
It did not dismount the tape. It says that it may still be in the drive, which it probably is. Open up the library when possible and check out that drive and you will probably find the tape. We have had a lot of this lately due to bad drives and changer in the library. Brenda

Re: tape going unavail

2003-09-05 Thread bkupmstr
Thanks for the reply Jack, but I'm not getting any read or write errors and its a very intermittent problem. I'm wondering if I have sonmeting wrong with my setup of the drive/library definitions. There's really on library just 3590 autoloaders. - Do you Yahoo!?

Re: tape going unavail

2003-09-05 Thread Coats, Jack
When I see this we have had read errors on the tape. My method of resolution is to mark the tape read only, then do a move data to get the data off the tape. update vol volumename123 acc=reado move data volumename123 This gets all the data off the tape. Then I check it out, delete the volu