>TSM 5.1.6.5 on windows 2K server.
>
>When I run a simple restore, nothing that I haven't done a hundred times
>before, the restore hangs after a minute or two, and doesn't do squat,
>forever. The only thing I notice is the q mount command shows something
>odd:
>
>tsm:>q mount
>ANR8376I Mount point reserved in device class LTOCLASS1, status: RESERVED.
>ANR8334I         1 matches found.
>
>I've never set anything in the server to be 'reserved'. This is happening
>completely unexpectedly. I have no idea on what to do, as the actlog shows
>zipo on this error. I don't even think TSM thinks it's an error.
>
>I will work on it in the monring, but maybe someone has a quick fix.
>Didn't find one in the list...

I believe that the only quick fix is to restart the TSM server.

A Reserve is a special device command to retain control of a tape drive or the
like in an environment where the drive is shared by multiple hosts, over
multiple open-close processing sequences.  In AIX, this is accomplished at the
driver level by issuing an ioctl() to perform an SIOC_RESERVE command.
You can do 'SHow MP' and possibly 'SHow LIBrary' to verify this status and fully
identify the drive at issue.
I would check back in the Activity Log to determine what circumstances were
involved in that drive becoming reserved, to try to possibly identify an issue
with an operation sequence or allied software component which precipitates the
condition, to avoid or correct it.

Elevating the maintenance level of your TSM server may or may not alleviate the
possibility of recurrence.

   Richard Sims