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Re: 2 slots lost in library - Help!

2004-05-10 14:17:02
Subject: Re: 2 slots lost in library - Help!
From: Mark Bertrand <Mark.Bertrand AT USUNWIRED DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 12:56:13 -0500
Have you ever been able to use all 60 slots? My understanding is this:

An IBM Ultrium 3583 scalable tape library, although it is advertised as a 72
slot library, it only has 58 usable slots. The door holds 12 slots which are
used for I/O of system tapes and the system reserves two internal slots for
internal tape drive mounts.

Anyway, that's my understanding, when we used to own one. Running at
capacity is not a good place to be, trust me. I am so glad we upgraded to
the 3584, life is much better now.

Mark Bertrand


-----Original Message-----
From: Copperfield Adams [mailto:Copperfield.Adams AT WWAVRC.CO DOT UK]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 12:14 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: 2 slots lost in library - Help!


Hi,

I have an issue with my 3583 Ultrium LTO changer. We are pretty much running
our changer at capacity the entire time and have to check out tapes in the
morning in order to checkin scratch to get a db backup and usually have
appx. 56 or 57 private tapes in the library at any one time. Just recently I
have noticed there is a discrepancy in the number of tapes in the library
and the number of slots available:
The library's capacity is 60 and running 'Q LIBV' shows only 58 tapes within
the library. If I try to check any more scratch tapes in I get TSM returning
an error that it cannot checkin scratch as the library is full. I have
issued 'AUDIT LIBR <lib_name> CHECKL=BARCODE' and 'AUDIT LIBR <lib_name>
CHECKL=Y' but it still returns the same number of volumes within the library
(58).
I desparately need the 2 slots that TSM does not now recognise. Is this
likely to be a problem with the DB or the library and does anybody know how
to correct?

Many thanks, C. Adams.

C. Adams
IT Support Analyst
WRC Holdings Limited
adacop AT wwavrc.co DOT uk


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