Todd -

We saw a similar problem with our Silos under MVS.  If you are also MVS, I
would suspect the unit type that you have the tape devclass assigned to.  We
initially had it set to a class that required all mounts to be made in the sil
o, and had problems when the tapes were ejected.  We changed to a class that
was set to mount on both automated and manual tapes, so that thee was no
perceptible difference in operation between the two.  All scratch mounts are
forced into the silo.  This has worked reasonably well for us.

Jerry Lawson
jlawson AT itthartford DOT com
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Subject: Wait for Tape Mount
05-10-96 10:20 AM

We have had the following situation occur when we are trying to restore a
complete filesystem and the files are spread across multip le tape volumes.
The

restore begins and requests a tape that has been checked out of the tape
library, the restore process fails an d marks the requested tape volume as
unavailable. We have set the MOUNTWAIT to 60 minutes and tried the restore
with
the TAPEPROMPT set to Yes and No, with the same results.  What is
 the procedure to allow the needed tape(s) to be checked in during the restore
process?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Todd Mitchell
Wagner & Brown, Ltd.