This is the result of a know bug for tsm icm. a 3494 library. TSM messes up
the lib's knowledge of the scratch/private status of a tape. See apar IC31691.

> I agree. don't...
>
> I did the upgrade yesterday. (AIX 4.3.2)
>
> Only one problem discovered so far, but it's serius.
>
> Something is messed up with the allocation of mountpoins in the libraries.
> Clients or processes needing a mountpoint would earlier just sit and wait
> until one was available.
> In 4.2.1 it seems that if all mountpoints are in use or reserved, furter
> requests for mountpoints are cancelled.
> 10/22/2001 10:42:57  ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library
>                       3494.
> 10/22/2001 10:42:57  ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume ORA168 -
>                       mount failed.
>
> When this happened, I also noticed a new message from q mount:
> ANR8376I Mount point reserved in device class BCKTAPE, status: RESERVED.
> ANR8334I         1 matches found.
>
> The other 3 drives where busy.
>
> I've just started digging into this, so it could be that I have missed
> something...
>
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:
>
> > To all,
> >
> > For all those who are thinking of upgrading to 4.2.1, my opinion is don't. I
> > have been up on it for 10 days and have already experienced 3 crashes. I
> > also have a tape problem that I'm told was supposed to have been fixed. I
> > have 2 PMR's open, both at level 2. I'm on AIX 4.3.3 and not sure if other
> > platforms have had similar problems.
> >
> > I would like to hear from anyone else experiencing these or any other
> > problems.
> >
> > Geoff Gill
> > TSM Administrator
> > NT Systems Support Engineer
> > SAIC
> > E-Mail:   gillg AT saic DOT com
> > Phone:  (858) 826-4062
> > Pager:   (888) 997-9614
> >
>

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