The different behaviour or response between the two types of libraries is
due to the way the library firmware handles Cleaning Slots.  In the
StorageTek, you can only use specific slots for library auto-clean, and
when it's enabled, the Library doesn't report those slots.  Any requests
for them are denied as invalid slots, and if you re-did jbconfig, it should
only come up with the 80 slots, the 2 cleaning slots would not be available
at all.
    ATL on the other hand, lets you put cleaning tapes wherever, and it
doesn't "hide" the cleaning slots from the managing software, and Thierry
has the solution for handling this scenario.

HTH, cf

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 21:37:33 -0400, George Sinclair
<George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV> wrote:

>I changed the available slots on our ATL P1000 tape library (nwadmin
>GUI) from 1-30 to 1-29. The reason is because I have set up the 'Auto
>clean' feature on the actual library itself and will not be using
>NetWorker's cleaning functionality. I have a cleaning cartridge in slot
>30, and the library knows about it because it has a bar code (CLN###)
>and I reinventoried the tapes on the library. However, I still see that
>I have 30 slots when I look at the mount window in nwadmin, AND if I
>inventory slot 30, instead of getting an error, as I would have
>expected, it actually inventoried that tape, so it ended up loading the
>cleaner tape! How do I get NetWorker to see that slot 30 is no longer in
>the range? Am I gonna have to delete and re-run jbconfig? I don't wanna
>tell it that is has 29 physical slots, I just want it to realize that it
>only has 29 of those 30 available.
>
>I'm thinking that I might have to enable 'Auto clean' on NetWorker, set
>the cleaning slot value and then disable 'Auto clean', and maybe at that
>point it will obey?
>
>I changed the slots on our STK library from 1-81 to 1-79 (last 2 slots
>for cleaning), andset up 'Auto clean' on that library, and NetWorker
>obeys the new slot range there. If I tried to inventory anything in
>80-81, it gave me an error, so it worked there. Hmm ...
>
>We're running 6.1.1
>
>George

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