Of course - NOTMOUNTABLE means "You can have it if you really really ask for it".
:-p Forgive me, I'm in the middle of troubleshooting why 6 of my tapes last night got set to unavailable with hardware/tape errors associated with them... Mike Bantz Systems Administrator Research Systems, Inc 4990 Pearl East Circle Boulder, CO 80301 (303) 413-3999 direct (303) 786-9909 fax http://www.researchsystems.com -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 1:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Notmountable tapes being requested 00025 is getting mounted because its access is read/write not offsite. issue a 'update vol 00025 access=offsite' and tsm will not try to use it. david >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/18/2004 3:29:34 PM >>> Here's that output - I'm not relabeling anything just yet ;-) Volume Name: 00025-L1 Storage Pool Name: COPYPOOL Device Class Name: LTOCLASS Estimated Capacity (MB): 102,400.0 Pct Util: 46.0 Volume Status: Filling Access: Read/Write Pct. Reclaimable Space: 8.5 Scratch Volume?: Yes In Error State?: No Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 2 Write Pass Number: 1 Approx. Date Last Written: 03/17/2004 06:17:04 Approx. Date Last Read: 03/17/2004 05:15:19 Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: Fire Safe Storage Volume is MVS Lanfree Capable : No Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN Last Update Date/Time: 03/18/2004 13:06:48 Mike Bantz Systems Administrator Research Systems, Inc 4990 Pearl East Circle Boulder, CO 80301 (303) 413-3999 direct (303) 786-9909 fax http://www.researchsystems.com -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 11:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Notmountable tapes being requested When you do a "Q VOL 00025-L1 F=D", what does it say is the LOCATION/STATUS and such ? "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/18/2004 01:17:00 PM: > I'm trying to recover from a bunch of hardware errors on our tape library, > and issued the following to get a good backup for DRM: > > backup stg tapepool copypool wait=no > > So, it goes ahead and asks for volume 00025-L1, which is currently in > a NOTMOUNTABLE state, sitting in a fire safe. My question is this: > why, when > I've told TSM that this volume is not mountable, would the system need this > as an output volume? I've got plenty of scratch volumes in there, as well. > > TIA, > > Mike Bantz > Systems Administrator > Research Systems, Inc