Are you getting any errors in the activity log? There may be problems with those tapes. Do a search with those tapes in your activity log and see if there are tape or drive errors.
-----Original Message----- From: Wojciech Zukowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 1:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: inaccessible tapes I tried "UPDate LIBVolume LibName VolName STATus=SCRatch" but after few minutes tapes are again "private" how do you think - "checkout" and "checkin" will help? On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Rob Hefty wrote: > Simple question but must be asked, are the tapes in the library? If so I > would expect to see the home element with a value. Also try to enter "query > vol XXXXXX f=d' and see what the tapes access state is. Just some > ideas........... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wojciech Zukowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 12:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: unaccessible tapes > > > Hi, > I use TSM 4.2.3 on AIX 4.3.3 > and so many tapes are in status "private", but they aren't in a storage > pools. > No DRM is running, > It looks like that: > ============================================================ > Library Name Volume Name Status Owner Last Use Home > Element > ------------ ----------- ---------- ---------- --------- > ------------ > LIDO2LIB B0000001 Scratch 11 > LIDO2LIB B0000002 Scratch 12 > LIDO2LIB B0000003 Private Data 13 > LIDO2LIB B0000004 Private 14 > LIDO2LIB B0000005 Private 15 > LIDO2LIB B0000006 Private Data 16 > > > tsm: FRAADSM>q v B0000005 > ANR2034E QUERY VOLUME: No match found using this criteria. > ANS8001I Return code 11. > > tsm: FRAADSM>q libv lido2lib B0000005 f=d > > Library Name: LIDO2LIB > Volume Name: B0000005 > Status: Private > Owner: > Last Use: > Home Element: 15 > Cleanings Left: > > -- > Wojciech Zukowski > Lido Technology Ltd. Gdansk/Poland >
