Does ALMS apply to the TS3310? Do you have virtual I/O enabled?

Does 3576lib and its control path drive really correspond to cgoatl03?

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Lamb, Charles P.
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 7:44 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] IBM TS3310 Checkin/Checkout Tape Operational Question

Hi.........

We have just installed a brand new TS3310 ==> IBM 3576-L5B ATL.   Atape
version is 11.2.7.0 and ATL version is 500GS002 which appears to be
current.  TSM version is 5.4.3.2 and IBM 7026-H70 AIX V5.3.8.3.  We have
an IBM 3584-L32/D32 ATL which works differently concerning the
checkin/checkout tapes via I/O slots.  Does the TS3310 I/O slots work
differently as oppose to the IBM 3584-L32/D32 ATL I/O slots.  See below
for the TS3310 operational tasks.

We have run tapeutil -f /dev/smc0 inventory which shows robot, I/O
slots, drives and library slots.

Step one of this morning.....
1)      Placed tapes into I/O slots
2)      IBM 3576 screen asked where the tapes should go system or
cgoatl03 - hit cgoatl03 button and OK button
3)      Ran label libv 3576lib checkin=scr overwrite=yes search=bulk
labelsource=barcode
4)      We found in activity log anr8386w messages -- slot xx of library
3576lib is inaccessible, slot xx are the I/O slots

Step two this morning.....
1)      Placed tapes into I/O slots
2)      IBM 3576 screen asked where the tapes should go system or
cgoatl03 - hit cgoatl03 button and OK button
3)      We went into IBM 3576 web GUI and manually moved the tapes from
I/O slots to IBM 3576 library open slots
4)      Ran label libv 3576lib checkin=scr overwrite=yes search=bulk
labelsource=barcode
5)      Ran q libv and showed the tapes as scratch tapes

Why do we need step #3 above??  Is this normal??


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