Hi Pablo,
thanks for your reply.
To aswer your question - yes, before I've tried to label volumes, the
library inventory was empty due to the fact that I removed library
definitions from TSM several times and that causes library inventory to
be emptied.
S pozdravem / Best Regards,
Martin Trcka, IT Consultant
Tech. Support Department
GC System a.s., Spitalka 41, 60200 Brno, Czech Rep.
mob: +420 602 452 361
fax: +420 543 537 333
email: trcka AT gcsystem DOT cz
Pablo Wolinski napsal(a):
Hello Martin,
Did you take the tapes off the library? using:
checkout libvol storagetek-l80 tapebarcodename remove=no force=yes
I remember having to checkout all the tapes and physically remove them for the
library (they where many to take out in bunches of 5), the run an audit lib so
TSM find it empty and after that I could load the tapes with the label
search=bulk command directly, putting them in the entry slots of the library.
This was a storagetek library doh...
After that my science ends :-(
Hope you have luck, tell us if you could solve this.
Pablito.
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Martin Trcka
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 14:40
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: PowerVault 132T and Dell 110T LTO2 drives problem
I've tried all possible combinations of checkin volumes, neither worked.
label libvol search=yes labels=barcode
label libvol search=bulk labels=barcode
label libvol search=yes labels=barcode checkin=scr
I'm able to check volumes in (checklabel=barcode), but when TSM wants to write
to the tape (label, data), nothing happens. Tape just sits in the drive.
I can see NO errors both in Activity log and Event log.
S pozdravem / Best Regards,
Martin Trcka, IT Consultant
Tech. Support Department
GC System a.s., Spitalka 41, 60200 Brno, Czech Rep.
mob: +420 602 452 361
fax: +420 543 537 333
email: trcka AT gcsystem DOT cz
Pablo Wolinski napsal(a):
Hello Martin,
What is the process (sequence of commands) you are using to
checkin/label the drives?
I once had the same problem checking in the drives in a STK L80
library, and the solution was simply not checking in the tapes with TSM
5.2.3, just did a
label libvol storagetek-l80 search=bulk labels=barcode checkin=scr
overwrite=yes
and then went to the library, put the tapes 5 at a time on the entry
slots and did the reply XXX.
I was not able to run successfully any other combination of
checkin/checkout ... remove=no force=yes, label, etc. etc.
HTH!,
Pablito.
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
Of Martin Trcka
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 10:58
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: PowerVault 132T and Dell 110T LTO2 drives problem
Hello *SMers,
I'm having trouble with operating Dell 110T LTO2 drives in a PowerVault
132T library.
Environment:
- W2k3, HBA Qlogic 2340, FC attached Dell Powervault 132T library with
2 Dell 110T LTO2 drives
- TSM device driver for library
(http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&uid=swg21177112) and
IBM device drivers for the drives
(http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&context=SSGSG7&q1=110T
&uid=sw
g21082581&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en)
I am able to define both drives and library, as well as paths, in TSM
sucessfully, but I'm having problems with write operations to the drive.
F.e., when I try to label volumes in the library, the tape gets mounted
in a drive, but no label is ever written and the process never ends (or
at least not within 20 mins). Tape stays mounted in a drive and never gets
dismounted.
I've tried dozens of combinations of device drivers for the drives, but
never succeeded. I see no error in the TSM Actlog or Windows Event log.
When I define library as RSM type (using native Dell device drivers for
both library and tape drives) and use RSM for media handling,
everything works fine.
I can easily label volumes, perform backups and so on. Again, when I
reconfigure the library and drive back to SCSI type and try to perform
f.e. a backup of TSM database using media labelled in previous step
(via RSM), the procedure repeats with the same result - robotics mount
the tape in a drive and nothing happens. TSM server is still waiting
for mount of a scratch media, eventhough the volume is already mounted.
I've tried to install TSM 5.2 even, but the result is the same.
It seems to me, that there must be a problem with device drivers, but
maybe I'm missing something.
Any ideas ?
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S pozdravem / Best Regards,
Martin Trcka, IT Consultant
Tech. Support Department
GC System a.s., Spitalka 41, 60200 Brno, Czech Rep.
mob: +420 602 452 361
fax: +420 543 537 333
email: trcka AT gcsystem DOT cz
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