And, I've seen this happen when your mount limit is set to something
other than "DRIVES".  Like when you have your device class set to 2 as a
mount limit, TSM will "reserve" the other 2 to prevent an admin process
from using them.

See Ya'
Howard

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> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Remco Post
> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:08 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Cant change the status of a Mount Point
> 
> On 28 apr 2009, at 11:26, admbackup wrote:
> 
> > I am having a problem with two mount points in a tsm server.
> >
> > The tsm server is connected to a tape library of 4 drivers.  When I
> > input query mount there are always two moint points in RESERVED
> > status:
> >
> > ANR8376I Mount point reserved in device class LTODEV, status:
> > RESERVED.
> >
> > ANR8376I Mount point reserved in device class LTODEV, status:
> > RESERVED.
> >
> 
> this means that a process has reserved the drive... q pr should be
> your friend. If all else fails, try the windows solution and restart
> TSM....
> 
> > The problem is that there are only 4 drivers, but 2 of them are
> > unable to be used because of this situation.  Most of the backup
> > sessions stay in "Waiting for mount point" for long time.  I have
> > tried by restarting the Storage Agent service of all the client
> > servers  but the situation remains the same.
> >
> > I have checked the activity log, but there is nothing strange.  It
> > is not a hardware problem because the 2 drivers that become unable
> > for this problem are not always the same
> >
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