I am unsure of what you mean by compat mode.

We have 3590 drives in a 3494 on a MVS system. In our system they have
a generic name of 3590-1 and an esoteric name of CARTJ. In ADSM we then
have defined a device class for them using 3590 as the device type and
CARTJ as the unit name.

Regards
Laurie de Mamiel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Kleberg [SMTP:jrkleberg AT STATESTREET DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, March 06, 1998 4:13 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Conversion to Magstar
>
>      I would be interested in anyone's experience in converting to
> Magstar
>      drives under the MVS ADSM server.  We are currently trying to
> convert
>      to Magstars defined in compat mode within an STK silo.
>
>      When we define the drives as devtype=cartridge, it works great
> but we
>      seem to only get 10G to a cartridge.  When we use devtype=3590,
> we
>      fail because ADSM doesn't see the UCB as a 3590.  This is a V3
> server.
>
>      Any ideas?
>
>      Jim Kleberg
>      State Street
>
>      617-985-8392