We have both manual 3590 & 3592 tape drives at DR. We had issues with the wrong tapes being mounted on the wrong tape drives because they both have the same device type. We don't have any stand-alone 3592's at 'home' - they're managed as part of the native library we have defined.
We got around it temporarily by varying the different drives offline depending on which drives we needed. Our final solution for the next DR was to create an MTL for our 3592 tape drives and allowing SMS to manage them. The Operating Systems group had to define another library and, yes, we had to make SMS changes for the MTL. We had to delete the old library definitions and define new definitions for the DR VTS and the MTL. It's worked like a charm since then. ddk This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, forwarding or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
