Hello,

our IBM 3583 library seems to have a problem using a certain port. Sometimes
we get a "slot obstructed" error message because the library tries to put a
tape into a slot which is already filled with another tape. Looking into the
librarys slot information reveals that it assumes this slot is empty! First
I thought the cause would be the tape itself / its barcode. But after
removing this tape from the lib, the "slot obstructed" problem still
occurres with the same slot but a different tape.
Whatever the cause is, is there a way to tell TSM _not_ to use this slot,
even if its empty? Is my assumption right that TSM and not the lib decides
where to put a tape when checking it in or removing it from a tapedrive? But
when does TSM get the information about which slots are present in a
library? During an "audit library"?

Thanks in advance,
Stephan