After upgrading, did you delete the drives from ADSM and redefine them?
If not, those drives and the volumes written on them are still B-type from
the ADSM server point of view. Those volumes are refused to be mounted
on 3590E drives (and vice versa), as long as their access is READWRITE.
When I was in that situation, having a mixture of 3590B and 3590E drives
(from the ADSM server point of view, not in reality), I did the
following:
- redefined the drives,
- set access of affected volumes to READONLY,
- MOVE DATA,
- set access to READWRITE again.
I did not have to relabel the volumes.
Smith, Bob writes:
> We have recently upgraded to 3590Es (ADSM 3.1.2.42, 3466-NSM-C30, 3494,
> 6*3590E, AIX 4.3.2). After the upgrade we have started to get numerous
> messages for input volumes written *after* the upgrade like the following:
>
> ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library 3494LIB.
> ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 028462 - mount failed.
> ANR0542W Retrieve or restore failed for session 1327 for node NODEXXX
> -SQL-BACKTRACK) - storage media inaccessible.
> The volumes concerned were all scratch volumes written after the upgrade to
> 3590Es. There are plenty of drives available. Access to the volume is
> obtained by changing its status to "read-only". I have discussed this with a
> colleague at another site and he had the same problem. What he had to do was
> to relabel cartridges as they returned to scratch (with OVERWRITE=YES),
> rather than allow expired 128-track volumes be re-used in 256-track mode
> when they are returned to scratch. IBM do not appear to have heard of this,
> but it is fairly consistent in our shop.
> Anyone else had this problem and is there a better solution than organizing
> the relabelling of all 3590 cartridges before re-use on 3590Es?
>
>
> Bob Smith
> bob.smith AT eds DOT com
> EDS UK
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