Thanks for everyone for writing.  My mail system was down at the same time
so I had to solve it without adsm-l 's help. (But IBM was helpful!!!)
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Its the tapes from the old system.  They 'appear' to be incompatible
Its the tapes from the old system.  They 'appear' to be incompatible
with the (same) drives after moving from 3466-c00 w/3.7.2. to
3466-C01 with 4.1.3.

Everythings working fine if I make all these 'legacy' tapes read-only
and add a lot of scratch tapes for migration and reclamation, etc.

thanks for writing

                ... joe.f.

P.S> Didn't we see this problem from someone else??
   ALSO :  I'd like to hear from anyone who has been told they had to make
  all their current tapes READONLY to solve this kind of a problem.


Joseph A Faracchio,  Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley
Private mail on any topic should be directed to :
   joef AT socrates.berkeley DOT edu

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 Kent_J_Monthei AT sbphrd DOT com wrote:

>
> Can you do a 'backup stg tapepool copypool' ?  If not, check the devclass
> definition for tapepool.
>
> Can you do a 'upd stg diskpool hi=1 low=0 migproc=1' ?  If so, check your
> activity log history for 'mounted in drive' messages.......see if the TSM
> Server has stopped directing mount requests to either of the drives.  We
> periodically encounter this buggy behavior after a drive reports an 'I/O
> error' on 3494 library with 3590 drives.  Started when we upgraded our
> servers from ADSM to TSM 4.1.  TSM stops using the drive, even though a 'q
> drive' reports that the drive is online.
>
>
>
>
>
> brother AT socrates.Berkeley DOT [email protected] on 15-Aug-2001 02:32
>
>
>
> Please respond to joef AT socrates.Berkeley DOT EDU
>
> Sent by:  ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>
>
> To:   ADSM-L
> cc:
> Subject:  tape drive unavailable WHEN THEY ARE!!!!!
>
>
> Just moved my 1200 user production system to a new system and
> I've gotta solve this before my diskpool fills up completely!!
>
> I'm having a whole lot of problems with tape mounts and was wondering
> if anyone can summarize the known problems fixes for this.
> (what combination of devices.rte and TSM work without problems????)
>
> I'm on AIX 4.3.3 with TSM 4.1.3. Its a 3466 NSM
> I've got a 3494 with two 3590s.
>
> In a nutshell:
> I can do a:
>               backup stg diskpool copypool
> with NO PROBLEMS.  But if I do:
>
>           upd stg diskpool hi=1 low=0 migproc=2
>
> I get :
>  ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library  3494LIB.
>  ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 200332 - mount
>   failed.
>
> I've also seen this with onsite and offsite reclamations.
>
> any help would be much appreciated.
>
> thanks .... joe.f.
>
> Joseph A Faracchio,  Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley
> Private mail on any topic should be directed to :
>    joef AT socrates.berkeley DOT edu
>
>
>
>