We ran into exactly the same issue with our TS3500 tape library a few years ago. Unfortunately, the tech had to pull the drives and put the empty slots back in and let them be scanned so the library could see they were empty. Then he was able to put the drives in again.
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Benjamin Balk Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 8:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] "Ghost" Tape Drives and Slots Hello, We have a couple of aging TS3500/3584 tape libraries and are going through a process of consolidating what hardware we can into one single library using our faster drives and newer tapes. During this process we, moved 4 E05 tape drives into a frame that previously held a cell of tapes. When the tech who did the work pulled the tapes out, he didn't inventory the empty slots afterward to remove the tapes from the library inventory. Now we have old records of tapes showing up in the library so any inventory of the library causes our gripper to crash into the drives that are in the frame where the tape slots used to be. Is anyone aware of a way to manually clean this up through the front panel or web interface to save us from having to pull the drives out and re-insert the empty slots to scan them? In order to get the tapes back into the library, I was able to override the volsers of the "ghost" tapes through the web interface so that we no longer have duplicate tapes in the inventory but I still can't get the old records to go away. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Ben Ben Balk Storage Engineer Senior University of Michigan
