Roger,

On the storage pool, is collocation set to Node or Group?  I've both
mis-clicked and mis-typed that setting more times than I'd want to admit.

Nick Cassimatis

----- Forwarded by Nicholas Cassimatis/Raleigh/IBM on 05/24/2008 02:49 PM
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 05/23/2008
10:40:12 PM:

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> Why so many filling tapes?
>
> Roger Deschner
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> to:
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> ADSM-L
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> 05/23/2008 10:46 PM
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> Sent by:
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> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
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> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
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> Our TSM system is eating tapes.
>
> We have a very large number of "filling" tapes. I have sorted them by
> collocation group, and some collocation groups have as many as 6 tapes
> in "filling" status. We only have 4 tape drives, and we never migrate
> with more than 2 drives per storage pool, so I cannot understand how we
> wound up with more than 2 filling tapes per collocation group.
>
> They are all in readwrite status. There have been no I/O errors that
> could explain this.
>
> I could accept 3, and call it one of those things, but 6?
>
> Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT 
> edu
> ======I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=====