On Tue, 17 Oct 1995, Dirk Rober wrote:

> We use ADSM/2 (under OS/2) with an HP SureStore 12000e (1 drive and
> 6 tape bays SCSI library).  We have the following problem:
>
> We have filled 6 tapes so I used CHECKOUT to remove the full tapes en
> CHECKIN to load new ones.  But if a user now requests a restore from an
> old tape, that tape (which is not present in the library) is set to
> unavailable and the user gets a "data is not available" message.
>
> ANR8313E Volume HP0004 is not present in library HP_TAPE_LIB.
> ANR1402W Mount request denied for volume HP0004 - volume unavailable.
> ANR1410W Access mode for volume HP0004 now set to "unavailable".
> ANR0542W Retrieve or restore failed for session 5 - storage media
> inaccessible.
>
> What I realy want to happen is that the operator gets an mount request
> and that the user just waits on the mount to complete.
>

 Dirk,
  This is a limitation in all version 1 servers.  It is fixed in version
2 servers.  However, you can get around it with a admin mount client.
This client only receives "mount type" messages.  It's output can be
a piped to another program or cmd file to handle situations like this.
You could wait for this message, run an admin client with macro to
make the tape volume available again, and prompt the operator to put
the tape back into the library.  The user would have to re-issue the
request, unfortunately.
  New messages are documented in the readme files and also in the
updated online help that ships with maintenance.

Barry Fruchtman
ADSM Development