I see no reason why not.  However, make sure the printed labels and vol labels 
agree.

I suspect they will have to have separate category codes and be separate 
logical libraries.

That's how I would do it to keep everything straight and minimize the 
possibility of errors.


Gary Lee
Senior System Programmer
Ball State University
phone: 765-285-1310

 

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Zoltan Forray
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 2:50 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] re-label 3592-3C as 3592-2C ?

Sure. We did this a lot when moving between formats like you (we are now
all E06).

Check out the LABEL LIBVOLUME command.

I don't know the 3584 (we have a 3494) but you might be able to set the
library attributes to auto-relabel.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Arbogast, Warren K <warbogas AT indiana DOT 
edu>wrote:

> Both of our TSM/EE servers are at version 6.3.2 running on RHEL5.
>
> Each server has a 3584 ATL attached to it with both 3592-E06 and 3592-E05
> tape drives installed. The 3592-E05 drives were not removed when the
> 3592-E06 drives were added. Now we have an urgent need for more tape
> drives, and we are to use the 3592-E05 drives to fulfill that need. All
> 3592-JB cartridges in the 3584 have already been written to by a 3592-E06
> drive, and there is no budget for new cartridges. There should be enough
> scratch tapes for the new data, they're just the wrong format.
>
> A 3592-E05 drive cannot read or write a cartridge that has been written by
> a 3592-E06 drive. A process is needed to re-label or re-format a set of
> cartridges for the exclusive use of the 3592-E05 drives.  Can this be done
> with TSM? Or, can it be done with IBM Tape Diagnostic Tool ?
>
> Thank you,
> Keith Arbogast
>



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