Hi Richard, Thanks for the input ,you are right we have lots of volumes getting unavailable in couple of weeks. We have replaced the 4 tape drives of 14 tapes drives a , but no luck !
Still getting lots for volumes becoming unavailable and Scratch tapes becomes ZERO ! Thanks , Adeel Mehmood -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 2:26 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes Sounds like you are having tape library problems. A defective tape drive, where a tape won't eject properly, is a common cause of Unavailable, as is a bad gripper dropping a tape inside the library. A tape drive which can't read or write properly will rapidly cause tapes to be forced read-only, as if they are bad, but they are not. So, look into you hardware there. Richard Sims, still at Boston University On Jul 8, 2013, at 5:13 AM, Adeel Mehmood <ad.mehm...@diyarme.com> wrote: > Dears , > > We are facing problem as the TSM scratch tapes are running out , also the > tapes becoming unavailable . > Please advise , how to handle this issue . > > Thanks , Adeel > ________________________________ D I S C L A I M E R The information in this email and in any files transmitted with it, is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you receive this in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. Statement and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of the company.