We had a similar problem.  I was out of town, so my backup went with the
quick fix and bounced TSM.  Will lbtest work on any of the drives in
question?  lbtest is located in /usr/tivoli/tsm/devices/bin.

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Burton, Robert wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> Just wondering if anybody has any suggestions for a problem I am having.....
>
> Have an STK 9310 with 8 9840 drives, being controlled, of course, by
> ACSLS(5.3.2). TSM Server is 3.7.3.0 (AIX).  We had a problem encountered
> that killed our Library as TSM was
> in the process of using it.  6 out of 8 drives went unavailable.  Since that
> time STK has been in and corrected the library problems.  The 2 drives that
> were not being used at the time of the crash are working fine yet the 6 that
> are unavailable I cannot get back online to TSM.  When I update the drive it
> replies that the drive is in use....If I try to delete and redefine I get
> reply drive is in use.  Does anyone know of a way to get these drives
> back to TSM without having to cycle the server
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Robert Burton
> Open System Storage Analyst
> Royal Bank of Canada
> 315 Front St West
> Toronto, On, M5V 3A4
> 416-348-3849
> email: Robert.Burton AT royalbank DOT com
>