Dear friends

Scottish Provident is considering adding one or more 3590E (new, higher
capacity) drives to the ADSM hardware (3494 library with two 3590B drives).
I think one way to use both old and new drives at the same time, is to use
e.g. the 3590B drives for the tapepool and the 3590E for the copypool.

What I am wondering is: If a tape in the copypool (3590E) becomes empty,
can it go back in the general scratch pool and will a 3590B be able to
initialise it? Or would that need two separate scratch pools too?

Any other comments or suggestions?

PS please cc geetam AT geetam.sol.co DOT uk in your reply

Regards
     Geetam



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