Sounds like you are having tape library problems. A defective tape drive, where 
a tape won't eject properly, is a common cause of Unavailable, as is a bad 
gripper dropping a tape inside the library. A tape drive which can't read or 
write properly will rapidly cause tapes to be forced read-only, as if they are 
bad, but they are not. So, look into you hardware there.

    Richard Sims, still at Boston University

On Jul 8, 2013, at 5:13 AM, Adeel Mehmood <Ad.Mehmood AT DIYARME DOT COM> wrote:

> Dears ,
> 
> We are facing problem as the TSM scratch tapes are running out , also the 
> tapes becoming unavailable .
> Please advise , how to handle this issue .
> 
> Thanks , Adeel
>