Of course - NOTMOUNTABLE means "You can have it if you really really ask for
it".

:-p

Forgive me, I'm in the middle of troubleshooting why 6 of my tapes last
night got set to unavailable with hardware/tape errors associated with
them...

Mike Bantz
Systems Administrator
Research Systems, Inc
4990 Pearl East Circle
Boulder, CO 80301
(303) 413-3999 direct
(303) 786-9909 fax
http://www.researchsystems.com

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
David E Ehresman
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 1:45 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Notmountable tapes being requested

00025 is getting mounted because its access is read/write not offsite.
issue a 'update vol 00025 access=offsite' and tsm will not try to use it.

david

>>> mbantz AT RSINC DOT COM 3/18/2004 3:29:34 PM >>>
Here's that output - I'm not relabeling anything just yet ;-)

                         Volume Name: 00025-L1
             Storage Pool Name: COPYPOOL
             Device Class Name: LTOCLASS
       Estimated Capacity (MB): 102,400.0
                      Pct Util: 46.0
                 Volume Status: Filling
                        Access: Read/Write
        Pct. Reclaimable Space: 8.5
               Scratch Volume?: Yes
               In Error State?: No
      Number of Writable Sides: 1
       Number of Times Mounted: 2
             Write Pass Number: 1
     Approx. Date Last Written: 03/17/2004 06:17:04
        Approx. Date Last Read: 03/17/2004 05:15:19
           Date Became Pending:
        Number of Write Errors: 0
         Number of Read Errors: 0
               Volume Location: Fire Safe Storage Volume is MVS Lanfree
Capable : No Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN
         Last Update Date/Time: 03/18/2004 13:06:48


Mike Bantz
Systems Administrator
Research Systems, Inc
4990 Pearl East Circle
Boulder, CO 80301
(303) 413-3999 direct
(303) 786-9909 fax
http://www.researchsystems.com

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 11:23 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Notmountable tapes being requested

When you do a "Q VOL 00025-L1 F=D", what does it say is the LOCATION/STATUS
and such ?


"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 03/18/2004
01:17:00 PM:

> I'm trying to recover from a bunch of hardware errors on our tape
library,
> and issued the following to get a good backup for DRM:
>
> backup stg tapepool copypool wait=no
>
> So, it goes ahead and asks for volume 00025-L1, which is currently
in
> a NOTMOUNTABLE state, sitting in a fire safe. My question is this:
> why,
when
> I've told TSM that this volume is not mountable, would the system
need
this
> as an output volume? I've got plenty of scratch volumes in there, as
well.
>
> TIA,
>
> Mike Bantz
> Systems Administrator
> Research Systems, Inc