Wouldn't we all like that! Seriously, there was a thread about
this on the listserv late last summer (I'm sure it can be found
on the archives of the list).

I just did a check of our statistics. Gripper accesses in our
3494 look like this:

   Gripper 1:   24,815
   Gripper 2:      113

I can only wonder what happened to make those 113 accesses on the
second Gripper. Perhaps during installation of the 3494, when all
components were being exercised by our CE?

I can accept that this is a relatively new option (ca. one year,
at least?), and some software may not make as judicious use of it
as possible. It does seem strange, however, as Owen suggests,
that the 3494 *itself* doesn't seem to take advantage of it. If I
put ten tapes in the input/output station, I would expect the
armature to make five trips, taking two tapes at a time. Not ten
trips.

 -- Tom

"If I could dot the 'i' in a Michigan     Thomas A. La Porte
 game and the good lord came to take me   Archivist, Feature Animation
 the next day ... at least I could        DreamWorks SKG
 die happy." - Beano Cook, ESPN           <tlaporte AT anim.dreamworks DOT com>

On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Owen Crow wrote:

>I have an IBM 3494 tape library with 2 3590s and one robot with 2 grippers.
>When I check out more than one tape, I would like the 3494 to pick
>up two tapes at a time before it dumps them in the output tray. Where
>is my setup incorrect, or is this not possible? Currently it does this
>one at a time which is less efficient.
>
>The 3494 is connected to an RS/6000 model 560 with Atape 2.6.1.0,
>atldd 2.5.1.0, and ADSM server 2.1.0.10.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Owen Crow
>UNIX System Administrator
>