Sam,

I believe the type of tapes you are using are DLT-IV for DLT7000 drives.
Correct?
If you take a close look at the bar-code label, you will see the
bar-code, the six character tape label. Actually it is a seven character
label. If you look close enough, you should see a capital letter 'D' at
the bottom of the label. If you have a bar-code scanner available, you
could verify that letter 'D' is included within the bar-code itself. The
letter identifies the type of tape to the robot so it doesn't try to
mount, for example, a DLT7000 tape in a 9840 tape drive (provided you
have different types of drives within your library). Tapes with an 'R'
are 9840 tapes. Cleaning tapes for a 9840 have a 'U'. This barcoding
method is applied by STK. I can not comment about other vendors.

Regards,
John Carey


Message: 7
From: "McCormick, Diane S" <Diane_McCormick AT AIMFUNDS DOT COM>
To: "'Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'"
<Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 16:33:19 -0600
charset="iso-8859-1"
Subject: [Veritas-bu] bar-code

Hello!


We have just installed two ATL P3000 storage libraries....Current
configuration is Sun E450 running NBU3.2.....we have loaded libraries
with
tapes using standard barcode six number labels (same ones we use with
our
StorageTek)....when robot reads labels it assigns "D" to end of
number......has anyone encountered this before....would appreciate any
input...thanks

Sam McCormick
Production Control
Data Center Operations Support
AIM Management Group, Inc.
www.aimfunds.com 
ph:  713.986.9057
email:  Diane_McCormick AT aimfunds DOT com