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Re: 3494 Tape Libraries

2000-02-10 05:32:05
Subject: Re: 3494 Tape Libraries
From: Sheelagh Treweek <sheelagh.treweek AT COMPUTING-SERVICES.OXFORD.AC DOT UK>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:32:05 +0000
Mauro,

I admit I have never fully understood the internals of the 3494 PC!

But what I think think happens is that the second disk just has
the OS/2 and the Library Manager software and *not* the database.
So if you lose the PC, the engineer can boot the 3494 on the
second disk.  That doesn't get you operational and so that is
not really satisfactory.  I didn't know any of this for a long
time, I felt secure in the knowledge that I had 2 disks (ha ha).
Now I know better and I am going to get this new facility installed.

I have no idea why the image is compressed, or how often it is
updated - but I will ask some more questions and try to find out
...

Sheelagh
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