Ray... It would seem that you do have a bad drive... try taking the tape that is
supposed to be mounted and stick it in any open/available slot; Do an initialize
element status to refresh the memory register on your library or reboot it and
then run audit library <library_name> checklabel=barcode. This command will read
the info that is held in the memory of the library and you will be back in
business minus the downed drive. TSM is usually pretty good about allowing
downed drives to be brought back on line if the probably was a dirty drive which
has been cleaned or bad media (excessive errors caused by a particular tape
volume).

George Lesho
Storage/System Admin
AFC Enterprises





Ray <ray AT OPS.SELU DOT EDU> on 02/12/2001 06:00:13 PM

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Subject:  Re: 3570 tape stuck??



Well further digging and i disovered one of the two drives marked as
UnAvailable in TSM.  I removed the library cartridge and the lights on the
front of the drive are blinking indicating a fault condition.
Rebooting the drive and restarting TSM, TSM polls the drive then marks
it UnAvailable.  I think it's hardware.  I've placed a service call with
IBM.

I did get an audit library to finish and got this error:

ANR8834E Library volume  0045E3 is still present in library
3570LIB drive TAPE1 (/dev/rmt1), and must be removed manually.

Which seems to say to me that TSM thinks the tape is still mounted, but
can't check since the drive is unavailable.  This explains why i'm unable
to mount or check it out.  If TSM would just look, it would see the tape
is in the LIBRARY, NOT in the drive, hahah.  Ah well, i have a 3583
waiting to be installed, and i hope it is more robust than the 3570.
The 3570 always seemed a little flaky...

Thanks all for the suggestions...

later!
Ray
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Ray DeJean                                       http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Administrator               Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist              AIX Administration, AIX Support
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