Eric Haupt wrote:
> Hello,
>    I just added two LTO3 tape drives to our STK L700 which already had eight
> LTO2 drives. I'm using Legato NW 7.2.1 on Windows2003 and I have a problem
> where Legato is trying to mount the LTO3 tapes in the LTO2 drives. This is
> causing delays in savegroups, and the LTO2 drives to go into service mode
> because of too many errors.
>    I have several dedicated storage nodes with which I am using SnapImage. I
> want to dedicate the biggest ( 1.7 TB ) , most important, SnapImage savesets
> to these two new LTO3 drives and LTO3 volumes. I would also like for the two
> LTO3 drives to be available for other storage nodes and restores when not
> busy with big SnapImage jobs.
>    Any suggestions on how I configure NW so I can keep the LTO3 tapes
> dedicated to the LTO3 drives? I appreciate any feedback or suggestions. 
> Thanks. 
>
>   
I'm going through the same thing here with LTO2 and SDLT drives.  As one
person already said, pools will solve part of the problem. However, when
you go to do a restore it is going to try and put the tape(s) in the
drive with the fewest mount requests, no matter what kind of drive that
may be.  The good news is that 7.3 appears to fix the inventory issue as
they don't reread the tape labels if they tape has been used in that
library before.

In my case I've had to leave my SDLT drives disabled all of the time
until I need them (primarily for access legacy DLT IV tapes).

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