What I do is this (works best if little activity on Library)

When repaired drive is ready, use "Update drive" to place
all drives offline - except ones currently in use.  Then place
the replaced drive online and maybe 2 or 2 more.  Then do
something like reclamation, migration or move data.

Guaranteed to use the drive in a few minutes.  I prefer
this to say checkin or checkout tape, which make minimum
use of tape.

Have used this for years.

FYI:  Remember to put other drives back online afterwards!

David Longo

>>> Richard Rhodes <rrhodes AT FIRSTENERGYCORP DOT COM> 11/30/2007 3:23 PM >>>
Sometimes I want to have TSM test out a tape drive.
Something like . . .
  - pick a drive
  - pick a tape
  - have tsm mount the tape and read the label (or something)
  - tell me this succeeded or not

Like yesterday . . . IBM repaired a tape drive.  After fixing it, IBM
tells us it's fixed.  We put the drive online . . .and wait for TSM
to use it.  For this particular drive, it was several hours before
TSM used it.

We also get this after an upgrade, or adding a new drive.  To get
TSm to used any drive, let alone a particular drive, requires
starting a migration, update stgpool, backup to tape, etc.  All
are large processes.

Is there a simple way to get TSM to exercise a particular tape drive? Or,
what do you do in these situations?

We have 3590 drives in 3494 libraries, and 3592 drives in 3584 libraries.

Thanks

Rick


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