Sounds to me like you have too many tape drives. Did you tell your CFO of your woes? I'm sure this should be a consideration during your next budget cycle.
Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 3:23 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Is there a simple way to test a tape drive? Sometimes I want to have TSM test out a tape drive. Something like . . . - pick a drive - pick a tape - have tsm mount the tape and read the label (or something) - tell me this succeeded or not Like yesterday . . . IBM repaired a tape drive. After fixing it, IBM tells us it's fixed. We put the drive online . . .and wait for TSM to use it. For this particular drive, it was several hours before TSM used it. We also get this after an upgrade, or adding a new drive. To get TSm to used any drive, let alone a particular drive, requires starting a migration, update stgpool, backup to tape, etc. All are large processes. Is there a simple way to get TSM to exercise a particular tape drive? Or, what do you do in these situations? We have 3590 drives in 3494 libraries, and 3592 drives in 3584 libraries. Thanks Rick ----------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately, and delete the original message. IMPORTANT: E-mail sent through the Internet is not secure. Legg Mason therefore recommends that you do not send any confidential or sensitive information to us via electronic mail, including social security numbers, account numbers, or personal identification numbers. Delivery, and or timely delivery of Internet mail is not guaranteed. Legg Mason therefore recommends that you do not send time sensitive or action-oriented messages to us via electronic mail. This message is intended for the addressee only and may contain privileged or confidential information. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone any information contained in this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the author by replying to this message and then kindly delete the message. Thank you.