might explain why all the internals (bunch anyway) were "green" when we had IBM upgrade a bunch of B1A tape drives to E1A drives just a few months back... color coded to indicate usage...
-----Original Message----- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is a mix of 3590E normal tape with long-tape possible? It is more than a setting. The takeup reel and some other stuff has to be changed in the drive depending on the level of E1A drive it is. The original E1As did not support K tape. -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Bach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 11:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is a mix of 3590E normal tape with long-tape possible? Our CE had to change a setting on the 3590E tape drives to allow them to write to the double length tapes. Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -----Original Message----- From: Cook, Dwight E (SAIC) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 7:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is a mix of 3590E normal tape with long-tape possible? 3590E normal tapes & long tapes ? ? ? are you referring to "J" tapes & "K" tapes ? (that is all I know of...) J tapes are 3590-B1A tapes which may be written to by 3590-E1A tape drives (a reformat is performed) and K tapes are the 3590-E1A tapes from the start... If this is the case, yes, you can have both in an ATL that is loaded with 3590-E1A tape drives... OK, my ~technical~ term here... those little plastic do-ma-hickies that are blue on "J" tapes, white on cleaning tapes and green on "K" tapes have recesses in them that are in different locations and indicate to the tape drive which type of media is in the drive... You don't have to do anything special... Dwight -----Original Message----- From: Rooij, FC de [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] <mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Is a mix of 3590E normal tape with long-tape possible? In our library IBM-3494 are 3490E tape-units. This library will reach its limits for the number of cartridges. We think of replacing the 3490E normal tapes by long-tapes. Does TSM support a mix of different tapes? If so, is it necessary to make modification in e.i. hardware(3490E modification?) or in TSM-settings. Are there pitfalls? Kindest regards, Fred de Rooij ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **********************************************************************
