David,
I have run into a problem with SAN clients where this can happen.  Looks
like it takes a bounce of the server to recover.  The problem appears to
happen if you shutdown a SAN agent and a drive still has a tape mounted for
it and a thread gets reused that did not get cleaned up properly.

If you are not using a SAN client check the status of the volume. By doing a
q volume xxxxxx f=d and seeing if it is unavailable.  Just update to
READWRITE or READONLY and you will be fine.  I typically do a READONLY and
do a move data command to make sure the data is good on the tape unless I
know exactly the condition that caused the tape to go unavailable.  The most
common is a dismount failure.

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


-----Original Message-----
From: David E Ehresman [mailto:deehre01 AT LOUISVILLE DOT EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:13 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Volume not available?


>Are any of your drives offline?  Do you have any drives available?
What
>happens when you do an audit vol 700270 fix=yes?
>

No dirves offline.  Lots of drives available.  The audit vol fails with a
"ANR2321W Audit volume process terminated for volume 700270 - storage media
inaccessible "

David