I guess I should have passed on that I pre labeled one tape and when TSM
kicked off a db backup it asked for a tape, which I inserted, but TSM never
recognized it. A migrate did the same thing. Since there is only one drive
at least I know I didn't screw that up...
I also have read via messages and info on the admin console screen in 5.3
that scratch tapes need to be checked in. It sort of tells you how to do
this but locating it hasn't been possible yet.

Well I'll give it another try and see what happens.

Thanks,

Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
SAIC M/S-G1b
(858)826-4062
Email: geoffrey.l.gill AT saic DOT com



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Bob
Booth - UIUC
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 7:30 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: manual tape drive

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:19:19AM -0800, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:
> I've set up TSM 5.3 in a test environment with an external dat drive.
> Unfortunately since I've only worked with automated libraries I don't know
> the process for checking in a scratch tape to use with TSM. I also haven't
> been able to find the solution in the manuals so I was wondering if
someone
> could help me out please? I guess I'm not sure why the commands seem to be
> readily available for automated libraries but not this case. I've been
able
> to label some tapes just fine.

You don't check in tapes in a manual mode.  Pre-label your tapes with
dsmlabel
or label libv.  TSM will ask for a scratch tape to be loaded when it needs
one, and you just plop it in to the requested drive.  Once the label is
read, it is registered to the storage pool.  When the tape is emptied it is
deleted.

hth,

bob