We also have a 3583 LTO with 60 cartridges (advertised) capacity plus 12 I/O slots and have seen this multiple times before.
If you call Tivoli or IBM hardware support, their answer is to shut everything down and restart. On initialization the system will correct itself, and it does. The problem is, as you use the system it tends to "loose" slots. We have been running our 3583 for almost a year and I can count on one hand the times that we have been able to use all 60 slots. Since we are reaching capacity and need all 60 slots, plus some other issues (See results of adsm.org search results for 3583) we have opened a crit sys ticket which has resulted in a firmware upgrade for the changer, library, and all drives in our system in addition to a complete cartridge holder change for each internal 6 pack cartridge holder to a slightly bigger slot type. The new cartridge holders were developed to accept a wider range of LTO manufacture's tapes. We will see if this helps. Mark B. -----Original Message----- From: Burak Demircan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3583 LTO library Hi, I have a 3583 LTO library with 60 cartridges capacity plus 12 I/O slots. Today, when I try to check-in 6 new cartridges to my library that has 54 cartridges currently in it, TSM responded that the library is FULL. But when i go to library screen and look at system info, it says that 6 slots are empty. The 6 slots are in the same magazine under the the 2 I/O magazines. What could be the problem? Any help appreciated. Regards, Burak
