Hi There......... I've installed TSM 4.1 on WINNT that's connected to an Exabyte 440. The library was defined a SCSI. Device class was defined with devtype=8mm and format=drive and mountlimit=3. Defined 3 Exabyte 8500 tape drives to the library. I than linked the stgpool (8mm_pool) as copy destination(backup to tape). The tape labelling and checkin goes well(tapes gets mounted..etc). Whenever I try and run a backup to tape and then do query session, the session state is always MEDIAWAIT. I than do a query session f=d and the output is that the session is waiting for mount points. Whay would tapes be mounted during labelling and checkin,........and not during a backup?? Tks! GOD Bless Clarence Beukes IT Specialist (Tivoli Certified) Tivoli Storage Manager IBM Intergrated Technology Services Tel : +2711 302 6622 Fax : +2711 302 8806 Mobile : +27 82 745 3852 "A computer is almost human - except that it does not blame its mistakes on another computer. "
