update the device class . see help update devclass

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Keith Arbogast <warbogas AT indiana DOT 
edu>wrote:

> We are buying some 3592-E06 drives to replace the 3592-E05 drives in our
> 3584 tape libraries. The goal is to store more TB on the cartridges we
> already have. The 3592-E06 drives can read the E05 format, but they will
> write in E05 format too unless the tapes are re-formatted in the E06 format.
> So, we are wondering how best to migrate the E05 formatted tapes to the E06
> format.
>
> When we add the E06 drives we will remove the E05 drives.
>
> Is this just a matter of; 1) reclaim the E05 tapes, 2) checkout the scratch
> tapes returned from reclamation, 3) 'label libv overwrite=yes' the just
> checked-out tapes.
>
> Or, is there a simpler, more efficient way to do this? Would new storage
> pools help in the transition?
>
> With my thanks,
> Keith Arbogast