In looking at the output of the "q mount" I see the ~waiting~ and
remembered...
often if a tape encounters errors upon being mounted, recovery work will be
performed on the tape automatically (triggered by the drive) and it will
show ~waiting on mount~ until the drive gets through with it (or at least
with 3590's I've seen this)
It might be that the tape is actually in a drive but hasn't ~officially~
been mounted yet.
I don't know if LTO tapes have all the VCR information on them like a 3590
does but if so, you might be seeing this mount pause while the system
attempts to fix problems that the drive has discovered...


Dwight



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From: Stephen Comiskey [mailto:stephen.comiskey AT NOTES.ROYALSUN DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 11:13 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Newbie question about Space Reclamation


Dwight,

Thanks for the pointers...

I did a "q vol 476afxl1 f=d" and access=Read/Write, the tape is in the
library and there are no requests outstanding and Mount Limit = Drives :-(

My head is starting to hurt !!

Stephen


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check :
      availability of the tape 476AFXL1 (q vol 476AFXL1 f=d)
            make sure it is available ie. acc=readwrite
      availability of the tape within the atl (q libvol * 476AFXL1)
            make sure it is checked in...
      try a "query request" because if a tape needs to be checked into a
library a "request" will be issued
      availability of your drives (q drive)
            make sure they are all on-line and OK...
      mount limit associated with the device class used by these tapes (q
dev <blah> f=d)
            look for "Mount Limit: DRIVES"  OK, drives states limit is
equal to available drives
            could have a hard number...
try those things first...

Dwight



-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Comiskey [mailto:stephen.comiskey AT NOTES.ROYALSUN DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:19 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Newbie question about Space Reclamation


Hi,

I'm only new to TSM and on a bit of a steep learning curve.

We have a scheduled job each Friday to reclaim our copy pool tapes (update
stg backup_copy_pool reclaim=75), the process starts and the output volume
is mounted OK however the server wait for the input (60K+ seconds).  I've
pasted some output from the console below...

q proc
Process Description      Status

--------------------     -------------------------------------------------
Space Reclamation        Offsite Volume(s) (storage pool
                          BACKUP_COPY_POOL), Moved Files: 0, Moved Bytes:
                          0, Unreadable Files: 564, Unreadable Bytes:
                          10,214,383. Current Physical File (bytes):
                          180,031,126

                          Waiting for mount of input volume 476AFXL1 (821
                          seconds).

                          Current output volume: 505AFXL1.

q mount
ANR8379I Mount point in device class LTOCLASS1 is waiting for the volume
mount to complete, status:
WAITING FOR VOLUME.
ANR8330I LTO volume 505AFXL1 is mounted R/W in drive LTO_DRIVE1 (\\.
\TAPE0), status: IN USE.
ANR8334I         2 matches found.

I know I'm missing something real simple here, I've search a number of
forums (including this lists archives) but I may be entering the wrong
search parameters

Any assistance you can provide is much appreciated.

cheers
Stephen



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