There is no backward compatibility from E05 to E06? If that is the case you might want to create a new library for the E06 media. You could also limit the tape volser ranges available to the new drives.
I'd expect that if a drive loaded a tape with an incompatible format, it would recognize that. Is that not the case? -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Matthias Feyerabend Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 9:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] IBM3592-E06 resp. TS1130 Hello, we replaced our IBM3592-E05 with new IBM3592-E06. On long media (JB) they store 1 TB instead 700 GB which is almost 50 % more. My question is "How to distinguish E05 written media from E06 written ?" First approach is to look when the first file was written. If it is after our replacement of the drives, it has to be in E06 format. TSM only provides me of the last written date, but if some files are already written in E05 format I suspect that for the rest of the tape the format will not be changed and written in E05-Format, too. Is there some way to recognize if a given tape is written in E05 or E06 format ? My second question relates to the first one. My plan is to set E05 written tapes to READONLY and do a move data for each volume in E05-format to get all data newly written in E06 format. Something more clever than that ? Matthias -- -- Matthias Feyerabend | m.feyerab...@gsi.de GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH | phone +49-6159-71-2519 Planckstr. 1 | privat +49-6151-718781 D-64291 Darmstadt | fax +49-6159-71-2519 www.gsi.de Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung Sitz der Gesellschaft: Darmstadt Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Darmstadt, HRB 1528 Geschäftsführung: Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Horst Stöcker, Dr. Hartmut Eickhoff Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrates: Dr. Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph Stellvertreter: Ministerialdirigent Dr. Rolf Bernhardt IMPORTANT: E-mail sent through the Internet is not secure. Legg Mason therefore recommends that you do not send any confidential or sensitive information to us via electronic mail, including social security numbers, account numbers, or personal identification numbers. Delivery, and or timely delivery of Internet mail is not guaranteed. Legg Mason therefore recommends that you do not send time sensitive or action-oriented messages to us via electronic mail. This message is intended for the addressee only and may contain privileged or confidential information. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone any information contained in this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the author by replying to this message and then kindly delete the message. Thank you.