On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, David Longo wrote:
> 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.
I use "audit vol [volser] fix=no"
>
> 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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