==> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:42:24 -0500, Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU> said:


> There's really nothing to dispute... TSM asks the Library Manager to mount
> the tape - but, naturally, TSM has to believe that the tape is in the
> library in order to want to request the mount. When TSM restarts it performs
> the equivalent of an Audit Library, to assure that its last knowledge of the
> library's tape inventory is the same. If the library says that a tape isn't
> there, then TSM has to believe that and so deems the tape(s) unavailable.


I'm sorry, I understood you to mean that the TSM server would ask for the
volume regardless of wether it thought the volume to be checked in.  Clearly,
I misunderstood.

- Allen S. Rout