Andy, 

The TS3500 will support 10 character barcodes it is a function that must be 
enabled.  Alternately you can order new barcodes and re-label the cartridges 
internal lables to match the new labels.   You can also check them in using 
internal labels suggested below.  My preference would be new labels as it only 
takes one checkin=barcode to potentially start corrupting data.


Art Colvig
convergeone.com 




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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Skylar Thompson
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2017 7:47 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO tape label problem

Hi Andy,

I'm not familiar with the TS3500 library, but if TSM can see the bulk 
import/export slots (definitely possible if it's SCSI-connected), then you 
could do a check-in with CHECKLABEL=YES rather than CHECKLABEL=BARCODE.
This will have TSM mount each cartridge and read the tape label, rather than 
trust the barcode reader.

Failing that, I wonder if you could setup a library partition to place these 
volumes in, and do something similar with SEARCH=YES.

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 04:14:52PM +0000, Huebner, Andy wrote:
> We have recently received a number of tapes from a remote site that have tape 
> labels that are not compatible with out TS3500.  They are too long and the 
> paper label does not exactly match the electronic label.
>
> We have found we can hand mount a tape and see the soft label.
>
> The problem is the soft is not a valid label for the library.  An example is 
> LTO00021L, we have all of the 20 series.  Truncating leaves me with a bunch 
> of LTO0002 tapes.
>
> Short of hand mounting many tapes, how can I have TSM mount and read these 
> tapes?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Andy Huebner

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