At 20:02 -0600 12/16/02, Mark Stapleton wrote: >>If you're loading >10 tapes: >>1. Leisurely stroll to the library, open it up, place all tapes directly >>into empty slots into the library. >>Even easier--there's no request to reply to.
>Yeah, but it requires taking the library offline while the tapes are >loaded; sort of defeats the purpose of having a bulk entry door. I don't mind the taking the library offline to do the bulk loads, we do do that when there are >10-30 tapes, the 3584 is fast when it comes to verifying it's inventory with the barcode reader. It doesn't take that long at all. Thus it is not offline for long. But, I have found bulk loading tapes with the door open on the 3584 is a problem when tapes are in the drives. I had to figure out which slots NOT to put tapes into because those are the slots that the tapes in the drives use. When TSM tries to unload a tape after you closed the door it knew which slot it was in and tries to put it there, thus failing if you have manually put a tape there. A simple audit library check=barcode don't work as it wont run until all drives are unmounted... Is that called a paradox or a conundrum? I agree that some of us are just spoiled by having smarter library controllers. But I am getting in shape by running to and from the 3584 library and the TSM console :) Matthew Glanville [EMAIL PROTECTED]