This is the result of a know bug for tsm icm. a 3494 library. TSM messes up the lib's knowledge of the scratch/private status of a tape. See apar IC31691.
> I agree. don't... > > I did the upgrade yesterday. (AIX 4.3.2) > > Only one problem discovered so far, but it's serius. > > Something is messed up with the allocation of mountpoins in the libraries. > Clients or processes needing a mountpoint would earlier just sit and wait > until one was available. > In 4.2.1 it seems that if all mountpoints are in use or reserved, furter > requests for mountpoints are cancelled. > 10/22/2001 10:42:57 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library > 3494. > 10/22/2001 10:42:57 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume ORA168 - > mount failed. > > When this happened, I also noticed a new message from q mount: > ANR8376I Mount point reserved in device class BCKTAPE, status: RESERVED. > ANR8334I 1 matches found. > > The other 3 drives where busy. > > I've just started digging into this, so it could be that I have missed > something... > > > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: > > > To all, > > > > For all those who are thinking of upgrading to 4.2.1, my opinion is don't. I > > have been up on it for 10 days and have already experienced 3 crashes. I > > also have a tape problem that I'm told was supposed to have been fixed. I > > have 2 PMR's open, both at level 2. I'm on AIX 4.3.3 and not sure if other > > platforms have had similar problems. > > > > I would like to hear from anyone else experiencing these or any other > > problems. > > > > Geoff Gill > > TSM Administrator > > NT Systems Support Engineer > > SAIC > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Phone: (858) 826-4062 > > Pager: (888) 997-9614 > > > -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 8008 Fax. +31 20 668 3167 "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams
