Well, the problem with that suggestion is that the front panel
on the library was not working. The PC would not even boot up with the
arctic card problem, so there was no way to change any of the library
settings. 

        I'll have to play around in our development environment a little
more and see if some of the other suggestions work for next time around.

Thx
Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Bob Booth - UIUC
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:29 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:34:16PM -0400, Thomas Denier wrote:
> >  I know some of you are thinking that I should have been able to use

> > the drives in a manual mode, and so did I at the time. But try as I 
> > might, I couldn't get them to define in and change my STGPOOL 
> > configurations to use the manual devices.
>
> We have a 3494. The last time we did a disaster recovery test our 
> hotsite vendor gave use a group of 3590 tape drives without an 
> automated library. We got this to work by defining a new manual 
> library and updating the relevant device class to associate it with 
> the new library. We did not make any changes in storage pool 
> definitions.

You may also have to change the 3590 drive configuration (via the front
panel) to something other than a E1A (or E1X).  It may not work outside
of the library When it is not communicating with the RS-422 interface
(artic).

bob