While its not necessary to have multiple media types for YOUR environment
(this only adds un-needed complexity), the best way for you to achieve
this 'automatically' is to create barcode rules.  For instance, hopefully
you have some barcodes that are unique to JB2 (say JB2XXX), if that is so
then your barcode rule would say any barcode beginning with JB2 will be of
media type DLT2, then it will automatically add this for you.  I believe
your default is DLT since JB1 is the jukebox that has the media type DLT
in it and it being first in sequence.

I hope this helps you out, if not let me know.

-David

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David A. Chapa
Consulting Manager
DataStaff, Inc.
847 413 1144

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 Warren.Landrum AT Microchip DOT com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a new Veritas administrator who is having some problems that Veritas 
> Tech support could not provide me an answer with. Here's my situation.
> 
> I've got an NT Master/Media server that is controlling 2 jukeboxs. The one 
> jukebox (JB1), 2 DLT 8000 drives, is directly attached to master server. 
> The other jukebox (JB2), 2 DLT 4000 drives,  is directly attached to a 
> Network Appliance Filer.
> 
> When the consultant from Veritas came out and worked with me, he suggested 
> we make the media types of the two jukeboxes different, so that when we 
> pulled up the list of all Volumes, we could easily tell which jukebox a 
> tape should go in. For JB1, we used DLT - for JB2, we used DLT2. He 
> allocated some tapes that were in JB2 as DLT2 and everything was fine.
> 
> But here's the problem. I now need to put MORE tapes as Media Type DLT2 so 
> that I can put them in the scratch pool and the various classes that use 
> JB2 can grab them as I need them. In talking to Veritas Tech Support, the 
> guy said that if the Drive Type is DLT2 (which it is on JB2) and I put new 
> bar-code labled tapes in there and inventory them, it should pick them up 
> as DLT2. I did this and it did not happen.
> 
> So, bottom line, if I can figure out how to change the Media Type from DLT 
> to DLT2, I'll be all set.
> 
> Anybody have an answer?
> 
> Thanks in advance - I Hope!
> 
> Warren G. Landrum, Jr.
> Operations Supervisor
> NT/VMS Systems Administrator
> Microchip Technology
> w: 480-792-7746