Hi there,

To get your drives back online, issue the two following commands at the adsm
prompt.

UPDATE DRIVE TAPELIBRARY1 TAPEDRIVE1 ONLINE=YES
UPDATE DRIVE TAPELIBRARY1 TAPEDRIVE2 ONLINE=YES

You probably will want to also check the AIX errpt as well as the ADSM activity
log around the time the drives became offline to find out why.  I've had drives
go offline on me before for things such as a tape going bad while in the drive.
Hope this helps!

adam
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LOGAN wrote:

> I had 'q drives' and thats why it couldn't find that command(Steve, thank
> you). It shows now that the drive is not available. There is no tape mounted
> in there. I also tried cleaning them. It had been working fine for last 7
> months. Any idea why this could happen or how to put them back on line?
>
> TIA.
>
> adsm>
> q drive
> ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: QUERY DRIVE
>
> Library Name Drive Name  Device Type  Device   ON LINE
> ------------ ----------  -----------  -------  -------
> TAPELIBRARY1  TAPEDRIVE1 8MM          /dev/mt0 Unavailable Since
>                                                01/06/00 18:04:43
> TAPELIBRARY1  TAPEDRIVE2 8MM          /dev/mt1 Unavailable Since
>                                                01/06/00 18:04:18
>
> S W Branch <SWBRANC AT PPCO DOT COM> wrote:
> Try "q drive"
>
> Steve Branch
> Phillips Petroleum
> e-mail: swbranc AT ppco DOT com
>
> LOGAN <vlogan AT USA DOT net> on 01/12/2000 10:23:41 AM
>
> Any replies will be addressed to: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
>       <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>
> cc:
> (bcc: S W Branch/Sweeny/Phillips Petroleum/us)
>
>  Subject: Re: [Re: Help: DB backup fails.]
>
> Dwight,
> q drives says unknown command. But the other 2 are as follows:
> adsm>
> q mount
> ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: QUERY MOUNT
> ANR2034E QUERY MOUNT: No match found using this criteria.
> adsm>
> q pro
> ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: QUERY PROCESS
> ANR0944E QUERY PROCESS: No active processes found.
>
> Thank you for your follow up in advance.
>
> Logan.
>
> "Cook, Dwight E" <cookde AT BP DOT COM> wrote:
> Drives are all tied up by other processes or are not working...
> try a "q drives" and a "q mount" and a "q pro" to see where you stand...
> later,
>        Dwight
>
> > ----------
> > From:         LOGAN[SMTP:vlogan AT USA DOT NET]
> > Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> > Sent:         Wednesday, January 12, 2000 5:49 PM
> > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject:      Help: DB backup fails.
> >
> > Hi ADSMers.
> >
> > To backup the db, I issued the following commands on the server console:
> > adsm>
> > delete volh todate=today type=dbbackup
> >
> > then
> >
> > adsm>
> > backup db dev=7331_lib1 type=full vol=backup
> > ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: BACKUP DB
> > dev=7331_lib1
> > type=full vol=backup
> > ANR0984I Process 35 for DATABASE BACKUP started in the BACKGROUND at
> > 14:16:07.
> > ANR2280I Full database backup started as process 35.
> > adsm>
> > ANR4571E Database backup/restore terminated - insufficient number of mount
> > points available for removable media.
> > ANR0985I Process 35 for DATABASE BACKUP running in the BACKGROUND
> > completed
> > with completion state FAILURE at 14:16:08.
> >
> > ADSM Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 3, Release 1, Level 2.30
> >
> > adsm>
> >
> >
> > Could anyone tell me what is the problem.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Logan.
> >
> >
> >
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