Hi,

What tape drives do you have ? 3590 ?

I have seen this kind of behavior before and it
was a microcode issue. The command to dismount
tapes from the drive had a bug in the newer
level and IBM Tech Support had to return to
the previous level.

As you can see from the Log, ADSM does send the
command to dismount the tapes but it is not
executed.

Try to force the dismount with mtlib. I think
that it goes like this :

# mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -f /dev/rmt2 -d

best regards,
Rodrigo

From: Wolfgang Herkenrath <w.herkenrath AT MAIL.LVR DOT DE>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Library doesn't dismount volume
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 14:15:14 +0100

Hi,

I've got a strange problem.
Sometimes (every night from Tuesday to Wednesday) my ADSM 'dies'.
Tapes that are marked as full are eligible for dismounting but my
tapelibrary (IBM 3493 L10) doesn't dismount the tape.
Here's a cut from my ADSM-Log:

ANR5321I End of volume reached for 400708 on device 0CB0.
ANR5208I Dismounting volume 400708 (updated).

After a while all my tapedrives are full. So all my Job's which need a tape
dont run. I can't submit any ADSM-Operator commands. ADSM doesn't respond.
Then I have to cancel the ADSM Started-Task. After canceling the started
task the tapes are dismounted.
Then I start ADSM again and anything run's fine.

Has anyone a idea, why the tapelibrary doesn't dismount the tapes?
I get no Error-Message.

Mit freundlichem Gru_


Wolfgang Herkenrath
LVR-InfoKom
Ottoplatz 2
D-50679 Kvln
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