LTO2 tapes in unavaliable status!

[Fredito]

Hi!

I looked in my tapepool and saw that some om my tapes was in unavailable status, how can I get them read/writeable?

 

[wirb]

You don't mention what OS you're running TSM on, but here's how I do it via the Web admin GUI on Win2k:



Server storage | Storage Pools | Sequential Access Storage Pool | browse the list of volumes, select the one that's unavailable, update to READWRITE.



command line:



UPDATE VOL=<volname> access=readwrite wherestgp=<stgp_name> wheredevclass=<tape_type>

 

[matthew.wie]

You need to check why they are unnavailable. If you do a q <volname> f=d you can see if there were any write errors etc. If you suspect a dodgy tape do a 'move data' command to move the data to a new tape in the same storage pool, then delete the worn/corrupt tape.



to update a tape back to read/write, i do 'update vol <volname> access=readw'



Matt

 

[Fredito]

I have tried to UPDATE the volume to readwrite, but the next day it was in unavailable status again.



I was inserting 10 new tapes, 1 was successful and the other 9 failed.

The tape is new and have never been used, when I looked in the bulk they was still there.

 

[Fredito]

The problem is solved!



had to remove the tape from the system with the command:

rm vol 0000xx



and then update the tape again.