Hello. It's more hardware than software problem, but I think it's the best place to ask. What are the advantages of using dual gripper instead of single one? Did You observe any improvement in librar
To ask such a question, you must not have children. :-) When things get busy in the household called the tape library, the accessor saves travel by being able to pick up two nearby tapes in order to
Author: Richard Foster <Richard.Foster AT HYDRO DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:58:08 +0100
It may be worth pointing out that a dual gripper loses you some library tape slots - 10% of them, in fact. The upper gripper cannot reach the lowest 2 slot levels, nor can the lower gripper reach th
David - See http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts for such factoids: Dual Gripper usage statistics Gripper usage info is available from the 3494's Service Mode... Go to the Service menu thereunde
Our dual gripper is used 6% of the time, but we also have an HA setup (2 accessors) which requires dual grippers. You do lose storage slots at the top and bottom as noted, but the thing I don't under
Oh. That's the interesting point. We have to consider it (we soon will face the need to buy another frame to add more tapes) I have to reconsider buying another drives but those are horrible expensiv
Author: "Hart, Charles" <charles.hart AT MEDTRONIC DOT COM>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 14:39:52 -0500
How would you loose slots being that the secongripped will be on the robot ? I'm clearly missing somethig. Oh. That's the interesting point. We have to consider it (we soon will face the need to buy
Author: "Thomas A. La Porte" <tlaporte AT ANIM.DREAMWORKS DOT COM>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 16:00:17 -0700
The dual-gripper is considered a high availability option, thus each gripper must have access to all cartridges in the library. Thus, the top two rows of each frame are blocked off because the second
Author: Steve Harris <Steve_Harris AT HEALTH.QLD.GOV DOT AU>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:37:12 +1000
As I understand it, the gripper is most often used when there is a request load a tape into a drive which already has a tape in it (or maybe an unload pending). The sequence is load new tape into gri
Author: Jim Sporer <james.sporer AT DOIT.WISC DOT EDU>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 08:45:57 -0600
Al, We have the HA feature on our 3494 without dual grippers. Jim Sporer At 02:24 PM 10/24/2003 -0500, you wrote: Our dual gripper is used 6% of the time, but we also have an HA setup (2 accessors) w