did you define separate libraries for those device classes?

On 12 jun. 2012, at 08:15, Remco Post wrote:

> check the format= option on your device class...
>
> On 12 jun. 2012, at 08:02, Roger Deschner wrote:
>
>> We have a tape library (Oracle/Sun/STK SL500) which contains both LTO-4
>> and LTO-5 drives, and both LTO-4 and LTO-5 media. I am trying to keep
>> TSM from mounting an LTO-4 cartridge in an LTO-5 drive, but it is
>> insisting on doing it anyway.
>>
>> We have 4 LTO-4 drives and 3 LTO-5 drives. The mount limits for the two
>> devclasses are set accordingly - to 4 for the LTO-4 devclass and 3 for
>> the LTO-5 devclass. When a request to mount an LTO-4 cartridge comes, it
>> seems to use any of the 7 drives, regardless of whether it is an LTO-4
>> or LTO-5 drive. Therefore some tape mounts for LTO-5 cartridges are
>> failing or being delayed due to there being no available LTO-5 drives
>> when some of them are occupied by LTO-4 tapes. This is despite the claim
>> in the section of the TSM Administrator's Guide for AIX servers titled
>> "Mount limits in LTO mixed-media environments" (on book page 221 /
>> physical page 249 in TSM V6.2 for AIX, or book page 198 / physical page
>> 232 at V6.3) that setting the mountlimit to the actual number of
>> earlier-generation drives will prevent the use of later-generation
>> drives for the earlier-generation devclass.
>>
>> BTW, this is a library manager configuration, which may complicate
>> things. The devclass definititions do match on the library manager and
>> both of its library clients. The library manager is at 6.2.2.30, and its
>> two clients are at 5.5.6.0 and 6.2.2.30.
>>
>> So, the question is, how do I prevent LTO-4 cartridges from being
>> mounted in LTO-5 drives? I would prefer not to use the hardware library
>> partitioning feature, which has its own set of hassles.
>>
>> Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT 
>> edu
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