Have you looked at the activity log messages?  Could you provide them?

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-----Original Message-----
From: Theresa Whitney [mailto:theresa AT NISD DOT NET]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 9:45 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: tapes getting marked PRIVATE


It looks to me that each time I run a db backup TSM will attempt to grab a
tape, think it finds an I/O error on the label read, then marks the tape
PRIVATE and then moves on to the next tape.  That wouldn't be such a problem
except that it will do this to almost every tape in my library.

I have had the drive hardware checked in the library and had both drives
replaced.  Did not have the picker checked.

This problem does not seem to be happening during a regular data backup
- only during the DB backup.

Anyone seen this before or have any ideas.....?????

Theresa Whitney
Technical Systems Admin
Northside ISD
ph: (210) 706-8837
fax: (210) 706-8877
email:  theresa AT nisd DOT net