>  I know some of you are thinking that I should have been able to
> use the drives in a manual mode, and so did I at the time. But try as I
> might, I couldn't get them to define in and change my STGPOOL
> configurations to use the manual devices.

We have a 3494. The last time we did a disaster recovery test our
hotsite vendor gave use a group of 3590 tape drives without an
automated library. We got this to work by defining a new manual
library and updating the relevant device class to associate it
with the new library. We did not make any changes in storage pool
definitions.