My experience with the library communications after upgrading from 7.2.2
to 7.4.2 has been greatly improved...
 We have a rebranded ADIC (Dell PV-136T) 60 slot library with 5 LTO-2
drives. As before, whenever I eject tapes out to the mail slots, those
tapes locations got cleared to blanks. But now when I import expired
tapes, I used to have to do a barcode inventory to get it to recognize
the tapes and their new location, but now it recognizes the barcodes
(and therefore the tapes too) as the tapes are being put into the slots
when I do an 'import' from the mail slots... 
This save me the extra step of having to inventory the imported tapes...
Which makes my life easier... 
I've also noticed since the upgrade that the library state seems to be
more monitored than it was before, as now I see messages to the effect
that the state of the library has changed or 'needs attention' or simply
'ready'... It never did that before the upgrade... 

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> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Francis Swasey
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:29 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Move tapes offsite & autochanger
> 
> What version of NetWorker are you running?  (If you've 
> already said in a previous post and I forgot, I apologize for 
> asking again).
> 
> Starting in 7.3, NetWorker has a new library management 
> daemon (or service if you're running on Windows) that I've 
> found to be rather poor at keeping track of reality.  I've 
> worked with EMC for over a year because it just didn't work 
> properly with the Qualstar XLS we purchased in 2007.  They 
> finally got a working hot-fix for me for 7.3.3 after the code 
> was frozen for 7.4SP3 -- so, it isn't even fixed in the 
> latest and greatest... further I've since had to back out 
> half of the hot-fix because it was causing nsrmmd to core 
> when labeling brand new tapes (ones that had no label on them 
> at all) -- so, time will tell when EMC can really make 
> NetWorker work with a tape library now that they've spun it 
> off into its own module.  I just hope it is sooner rather 
> than later.  I am quite honestly worried that they are trying 
> to do too much too quickly.
> 
> Frank
> 
> On 10/14/08 7:13 AM, JGillTech wrote:
> > In a perfect world that is how it should work.  However, 
> that the tape library doesn't appear to be communicating when 
> it goes offline to NetWorker.  Everything else works.... 
> perhaps this is a configuration issue?
> >
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