lto7 reservation

[tpesselier]

hello

I have a mixed library lto6 / lto7, I would like to reserve lto7 drive's just for cartridge lto7 and lto6 drive's only for lto6 tape ,
an idea ?

Best regards / TP

 

[RecoveryOne]

Been a while since I had mixed media in a single logical library, going a bit from memory here so could be off target.
Make sure you define the format of the drive to the device class. See
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowled...sm.srv.doc/c_lib_media_generations_mixed.html
Then your storage pools would use LTO6 or LTO7 device class.

Another option is if your library supports logical libraries, create logical_liba with LTO6 drives and media logical_libb with LTO7. Then build the library's up though TSM.