Peter,

I would anticipate the only way to get these drives back online would be
to bounce the TSM server.  Having tapes stay at "In Use" even though
there is no process associated with it would appear to be some sort of a
product defect.


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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Peter Ford
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 11:18 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Unmounting volumes...


I have two tapes that are mounted and "In Use" according to the q mount
command.  Both volumes were mounted by a reclamation process and both
volumes encountered I/O errors while reclaiming their data.  Once the
I/O error happened, the drives were made Unavailable by TSM and the
reclamation process moved on to the next tape.  This left the tape with
the error in the drive and still "In Use".  The reclamation process is
no longer running, but these tapes not going Idle.

My question is, how to I dismount these tapes (from within TSM) and set
these drives back online?  We are running TSM 4.2.2.13, on Windows 2K,
with an IBM 3584 tape library.  The web interface for the 3584 tape
library is currently not accessible (due to another issue).

Thanks in advance.
Peter

    Peter Ford
    System Engineer


Stentor, Inc.
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