Hi Richard,

Thanks for the input ,you are right we have lots of volumes getting unavailable 
in couple of weeks.
We have replaced the 4  tape drives of 14 tapes drives a , but no luck !

Still getting lots for volumes becoming unavailable and Scratch tapes becomes 
ZERO !

Thanks , Adeel Mehmood
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Richard Sims
Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 2:26 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes

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
>

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