What does 'query drive' tell you?

If they are all listed as offline, you should be able to do 'update
drive' to bring them back on line.

Most likely TSM was trying to mount tapes while the library had the
drives listed as unavailable.

bob

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 12:42:39PM -0600, cc52 wrote:
> Our AIX ADSM  (version 3.1) is getting the following messages when
> trying to load 3590 carts out of our 3494 library.
>
> ANR8451i 349x library sdsulib01 is ready for operations
> anr8447e No drives are currently in library sdsulib01
> anr1401w mount request denied for volume ce0001 - mount failed
>
> none of the library configs have been changed.
> The problem started when the hardware folks put new read write heads
> on the drives.
>
> We are able to mount tapes with MTLIB but not with ADSM.
>
> What does ADSM need to reconnect the drives to the library.
>
> Ron Greve
> SDSU  Computing Services