Hot Diggety! Murthy V Gongala was rumored to have written:
>
> I have a 3583 LTO library with 2 drives. TSM Server v4.2 on AIX.
>
> I have been running Scheduled backups without any problems so far.
>
> Yesterday the server started reclamation process for one of the Storage
> pools as shown below.
>
> 784 Space Reclamation    Volume 053ABS (storage pool TECH_TAPE_POOL),
>                                Moved Files: 0, Moved Bytes: 0, Unreadable
>                                Files: 0, Unreadable Bytes: 0. Current
> Physical
>                                File (bytes): 10,487,404
> Waiting for mount of
>                                input volume 053ABS (68221 seconds).
>
> Some of the activity log entries are :
>
> ANR1040I Space reclamation started for volume 053ABS,
>                        storage pool TECH_TAPE_POOL (process number 723).
>
> 10/06/02 14:06:19     ANR1044I Removable volume 053ABS is required for
> space
>                        reclamation.
>
> Even though both the tape Drives are free, and a scratch volume is made
> available, all the migration processes are Held up.

Which AIX version? 4.3.3 or 5.1? And with which maintenance level patch
set? (Ie, 4.3.3 ML10, 5.1 ML02 are the latest) Or if you don't know the
ML set number, what version is listed in 'lslpp -l bos.rte.libc'?

What does the output look like for:

# lsdev -Cc tape

And within TSM, what does TSM think:

tsm> q libv <library name>

specifically, for the tapes that were mentioned in the actlog.

You may want to try a library audit:

tsm> audit library <library name> checklabel=barcode

Finally, how is the 3583 attached to the server? SCSI or FC-AL?

-Dan