We orginally used our 3466 with 7337s and I don't remember any door.
(That is the DLT box with 15 cart slots right?)

We would routinely open up the 7337 and pull out the tapes after
checking them our of the library and replace with scratches.

Joseph A Faracchio,  Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley
Private mail on any topic should be directed to :
   joef AT socrates.berkeley DOT edu

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Maurice van 't Loo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'v got a question about the IBM7337 DLT Library on a RS/6000 server.
>
> The library is able to push the tapes further than the standard place, to
> push them to the door, the tapes are in that case checked out. I saw it
> happend in the full-automatic mode of the library.
>
> Now the library is in control by TSM, i want that it can do the same thing.
> In stat of using the input/output, i want to checkout the tapes by push the
> tapes to the door, so i can checkout more than one tape and i can see which
> tapes are checked out.
>
> TSM is not able to do this.
>
> I tried to find a way that AIX can do it for me, but i'm not succesful.
> I tried tapeutil, and don't know any other util. who can do this for me.
>
> Does anybody knows the answer?
>
> TIA,
>    Maurice van 't Loo
>    The Netherlands
>