Wayne,
        I ran into a similar situation last week, except it was with migration
processing... turned out there was a problem with one of the 3590 drives
in the 3494... did you check for a hardware problem ???  BTW.... PTF13
is available for the ADSM server on AIX...  been running it since the
Sunday..

Tim Pittson
tpittson AT himail.hcc DOT com

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>From:  Wayne Gorton[SMTP:wayneg AT AU1.IBM DOT COM]
>Sent:  Tuesday, July 15, 1997 12:16 AM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       Strange behaviour for a reclaim.
>
>Howdy All,
>I was wondering if anyone has ever seem this rather strange behaviour.
>I had a volume that was trying to be reclaimed & was waiting for multiple
>mount
>points for 6000 seconds. The odd thing is that a q mo displayed nothing
>mounted
>& yes we have 2 tape drives & many available scratch volumes all in a 3494.
>So
>it should manage itself, no action or reply on my part. Also reclaim has been
>working fine for months, until today.
>I cancelled this process, since it wasn't going anywhere & issued a move data
>to a disk storage pool.
>After the command I monitored it & lo-and-behold it actually wanted to mount
>a
>third tape before it got to the tape that it said it wanted to reclaim.
>
>My theory is that this third tape had the beginning of a file that was being
>reclaimed & the tape that wanted to be reclaimed had the end of it. Thus 2
>input tapes & 1 output tape. We only have 2 tape drives.
>
>Is this the case? Does this sound feasible? Or have I stumbled onto a
>undocumented "feature" of ADSM?
>I've seen reference to this invisible mount before that will be fixed in
>ptf13
>(if it ever comes out....maybe they've renamed it ADSM version 3 :-) That fix
>to stop/start the server. I did this & it didn't fix the problem
>
>Role:                               Unix System Administrator
>Style:                              The Thinking Man's Clown
>Name:                               wayneg AT au1.ibm DOT com
>Life:       "Imagination is more important than knowledge"   Albert Einstein
>