TS1120 and J1A drives will have to be in different logical libraries
similar to having two different types of LTO drives in the same physical
library.  I don't believe that different logical libraries can share
scratch tapes.



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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Thomas Denier
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:48 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: 3592 scratch pools

We have a 5.3.4.0 TSM server running under mainframe Linux. It will
be upgraded to 5.4.2.0 in the next few weeks. We currently have
3592J drives used for all primary tape storage pools and a few copy
pools. We have 3590 drives used for most of the copy pools. We are
preparing to order some TS1120 tape drives, which will be used for
all copy pools. All of the existing drives are in the same 3494 tape
library, and the TS1120 drives will be installed in this library.
The TS1120 drives will operate with application managed encryption.
We would like to use the higher density format available with the
TS1120. Will it be possible for the 3592J drives and the TS1120
drives to share a pool of scratch tapes?