There are 10 drives and the message appears when attempting to mount a tape on 
each of the drives. The library does not have tapes in all drives when I am 
attempting to mount a tape. I'll try to find out if there are any processes 
locking the drives on the OS.
   
  Thanks

Stuart Whitby <swhitby AT dataprotectors.co DOT uk> wrote:
  Sounds like this is in use by something else. Try running an sjirdtag against 
the jukebox from the system which controls the robot arm. My guess is that 
there's already a tape in there. Either that or there's another process which 
is reserviing the drive other than the nsrmmd process. You should be able to 
check this (I think) using "fuser /dev/rmt/c16t5d0BESTnb" from the HP box in 
question. This will give you the PID of the process using the drive. However, 
that's just one of the links for this drive. Might be better off running

for i in $( ls /dev/rmt/c16t5d0* )
do
echo $i
fuser $i
done

That will tell you if there are any processes locking the drive on that system. 
The alternative is that another system has the drive reserved (if it's a SAN 
drive). 

HTH,

Stuart.

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion on behalf of mark wragge
Sent: Fri 17-Nov-06 10:26
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] device is not available - storage node error message



The enable attribute is set to yes. I have checked this. I wonder is it 
possible that the GUI is not reflecting the correct setting. Is there a way of 
checking that a device is enabled from the command line.



Shyam Hegde wrote:
Hi,

Using NetWorker Administrator GUI, select appropriate device and edit it, the 
"Enable" attribute should be set to "Yes".

-Shyam

On 11/16/06, mark wragge wrote: I have configured a new storage node using the 
device wizard on networker 7.3.2. The HP-ux storage node shows tape devices 
from ioscan with correct device paths and file names. Inquire command reports 
correct tape device listing.
Tape devices have been added using 7.3.2 storage node scan and then added to 
the existing library using the wizard. Wizard appears to locate all tape 
devices correctly and all shared tape devices have matching serial numbers.
Correct number of nsrmmd processes are running on storage node.

When I attempt to mount a tape to the HP-ux storage node device I receive the 
following error almost immediately - error message: "Device 
rd=server1:/dev/rmt/c16t5d0BESTnb' is not available.";

Any ideas to the cause of this? thanks



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