In a manual tape drive arrangement, if TSM calls for a tape and you don't
mount it within the timeout period, TSM will mark it read only.

Regards,
Orin

Orin Rehorst
Port of Houston Authority
(Largest U.S. port in foreign tonnage)
e-mail:  rehorst AT poha DOT com
Phone:  (713)670-2443
Fax:      (713)670-2457
TOPAS web site: <www.homestead.com/topas/topas.html>



-----Original Message-----
From: Pearson, Dave [mailto:DCPearson AT SNOPUD DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:46 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: bad tapes


Hello,

If you do a "q volume nnnnnn f=d" (nnnnnn=volume name) this will tell you
the "Number of Write Errors:" and "Number of Read Errors:" amoung with other
good information.

Dave Pearson
IS PRoduction Support Analyst
System and Network Service
Snohomish County PUD # 1
425.347.4420


Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Longo [SMTP:David.Longo AT HEALTH-FIRST DOT ORG]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:30 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: bad tapes
>
> 1. Not that I know of.  However you can do it manually with the
> Update Volume Command.
>
> 2. One way I do is to use the actlog:
> q actlog begind=-1 search=i/o
> This will show any I/O errors in last day.  You can search
> on other specific message numbers of other patterns/words.
>
> David Longo
>
> >>> alazarev AT HERA.ITG.UIUC DOT EDU 10/02/02 02:11PM >>>
> I've got a pretty simple question:
>
> some of my tapes are automatically turning to READ ONLY state. That's
> cool
> I assume the server detects a read/write error, then sets the tape to
> READ
> ONLY.
>
> 1) is there any scenareo where a tape is still good, yet the server
> sets
> it to READ ONLY?
>
> 2) where is the log for read/write errors. only way i know of is
> looking
> at the >dsmadmc -console window and seeing it as it scrolls by. i want
> to
> confirm a tape had read/write errors before i remove it from the
> library.
>
> thanks in advnace,
>
> alex
> ---                                                        ---
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