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Re: Checkin libvol

2003-10-13 05:18:50
Subject: Re: Checkin libvol
From: Richard van Denzel <RvanDenzel AT SLTNGROUP DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:02:14 +0200
Works as designed

Met vriendelijke groet, with kind regards,

Richard van Denzel
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"Wilcox, Andy" <andy.wilcox AT AQUILA-NETWORKS.CO DOT UK>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
13-10-2003 10:45
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"


        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        cc:
        Subject:        Re: Checkin libvol


Food for thought (or at least what I have noticed on a 3584) when TSM
mounts
a tape, the libvolume still has the home element id of the slot it came
out
of. Therefore when TSM checks in tapes it will cannot use the "empty" slot
created  by the mounted tape.

Cheers

Andy Wilcox
Midrange Services
Aquila Networks Services Ltd


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Otto Schakenbos [SMTP:otto.schakenbos AT TELEFLEX DOT COM]
> Sent: 13 October 2003 08:30
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Checkin libvol
>
> If that happens (having a tape in slot where another tapes belongs then
> tsm will take the drive offline and you will have take the tape out of
> the drive by hand. This is probarly not what you want. You could do a q
> mount, get a list of the mounted tape and with a query libv see in which
> slots these tapes belong. This way you know which slot you can use. It
> would be easiest to put this in a script which gives you a list of slots
> you can use or can not use, but this is depending on the size of your
> installation. (maybe some handy sql select command could do the trick)
>
> Regards
>
> Marcel J.E. Mol wrote:
>
> >On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 07:35:43AM -0500, Stapleton, Mark wrote:
> >
> >
> >>From: Christian Svensson [mailto:christian.svensson AT CRISTIE DOT SE]
> >>
> >>
> >>>Search=yes is not picking up the media from the Service port.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I need to use Search=bulk.
> >>And and it??s still does??nt work.<
> >>
> >>If you're loading tapes into the I/O station, you'll have to run the
> request/reply process to check them. The search=yes parameter is only
used
> when you put tapes into the library manually.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I noticed that too. But isn't entering tapes in empty slots a bit
> dangerous?
> >If tsm has loaded a tape from say slot 100 in a drive and you put a new
> tape
> >in slot 100 what will happen if tsm wants to return the tape from the
> drive to
> >its original slot?
> >
> >I'm using a script to checkin tapes one by one from the ioslots (3584)
> >explicitely specifying the volumelabel. TSM then requests me to put
> >the tape in the upper slot for every tape. I wish that it would support
> >search=bulk so it scans the ioports for the specific volume...
> >
> >-Marcel
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