Joe,

That depends on the level of TSM you're on.  I've got six drives shared
with three servers on three different levels.  The two on 3.7.4 still drop
a drive on occasion, but I haven't seen that on the test machine on
4.1.2.  I can't tell you exactly, since this is Sunday am at home, but I
think there's a 3590shared option also.



On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Joe Faracchio wrote:

> I'm looking for a second opinion, caveats and any "we've been there
> (and its good/bad)" about tape sharing .  Sharing that's NOT SAN stuff.
>
> In speaking with a level 1 (1.5-2!) TSM/3466 support person about
> something else, we got around to the topic of 3590's cabled to two systesm
> and he said I could have all four tape drives (3590-E1A's) online to both
> 3466 NSMs and they will just go into POLLING mode until a drive becomes
> available. AIX/TSM can play NICE-NICE with shared drives!!(??!)
>
> And all I need to do is put 3494SHared Yes in both server options files.
>
> Does this work?  Work well?  Any hang-ups? Crashes?  Gothchas??
>
> As long as I scheduled things so that there's little or no drive
> contention does it work?
>
> thanks ... joe.f.
>
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