Wanda,
IBM, just last week, announced version 3.1.1.1 of ADSM which directly
supports ACSLS driven STK9710.
I am not quite sure I understood your last question:
"Do you know if IBM is planning to fix the problem with only having the 1st
slot available in the CAP?"
Could you please elaborate on that?
After getting the version of ADSM that directly support STK, we are working
for the upgrade plan and would like to know if there is anything that we
are missing.
Naveed.
PrathW1 AT CENTRAL.SSD.JHUAPL DOT EDU on 04/07/98 09:22:17 AM
Please respond to ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
cc: (bcc: Naveed Mustafa)
Subject: FW: ADSM V3 and DRM
Hi...
We also run ADSM V2 on AIX 4.2 with an STK9710 and ADSM Enhanced server
(the
software that lets you run the 9710 via the STK ACSLS server code.)
Things you get using the Enhanced Server code instead of the IBM drivers:
1) Yes, you get to use all the CAP slots.
2) Checkin/checkout works a bit better.
3) Enhanced Server does NOT replace all the ADSM code. It sticks a front
end onto ADSM which starts some extra processes when ADSM starts, and also
provides AIX device drivers for the robot and drives. Those extra
processes
work as an interface that somehow turns the ADSM commands into RPC calls to
ACSLS, which then drives the robot.
4) Because the ADSM to ACSLS communication is via the network, you can
have
ADSM running on a different host than ACSLS, i.e., the 9710 could be
physically attached to a different host. Some people use might use that
capability to share the 9710 with other applications.
5) You can have mixed drive types in the 9710 - we have both
3490-compatible
and DLT drives in the same 9710's.
Our 9710's have always worked great with the 3490 drives. Last year when
we
added the DLT7000's we picked up a lot of problems which have since been
resolved with microcode patches.
However, at the moment there is NOT a version of ADSM Enhanced server for
ADSM V3.
Open Microsystems (the people who provided Enhanced Server) has a new
product that will work with V3, but you have to spend more money to get it,
it isn't an upgrade. IBM has said they will provide ADSM direct support
for
ACSLS-driven STK libraries this quarter, but haven't produced anything yet.
We would like to drop ACSLS and use the IBM drivers so we can go to V3, but
I can't deal with having only 1 slot available in the CAP. So we will
probably sit on V2 for a while until we see whether IBM will really produce
a driver or not.
Do you know if IBM is planning to fix the problem with only having the 1st
slot available in the CAP?
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Wanda Prather
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu
"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think."
- Scott Adams/Dilbert
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> ----------
> From: Casey, Mike[SMTP:Mike.Casey AT latimes DOT com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 05, 1998 3:39 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
> Subject: Re: ADSM V3 and DRM
>
> Naveed,
>
> We are running ADSM ver 2 on a ver. 4.1.5 AIX platform using an STK9710.
> When we put the system up last August, IBM had just announced support
> for the STK9710. We chose not to use the STK available version of ADSM,
> as we thought it would introduce another layer of code and complicate
> things. Didn't the STK supplied code completely replace the IBM
> supplied code of ADSM? What added functionality did you get by using
> STK code? Is the ACSLS code only available with the STK version of
> ADSM? We plan on going to ADSM ver 3 soon and would appreciate any
> insights/problems you have had with the 9710.
>
> One particular question:
>
> Were you/are you able to use more than the first slot of the STK9710
> access door?
>
> M. Casey
> Los Angeles Times
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Naveed Mustafa [SMTP:Naveed_Mustafa AT MCKINSEY DOT COM]
> Sent: Saturday, April 04, 1998 03:04
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: ADSM V3 and DRM
>
> Hello All,
>
> We are in a planning phase of upgrading our present ADSM V2
> environment to
> ADSM V3.
>
> Our present environment is such that we are running ADSM
> v2.1.0.13 on AIX
> 4.1.5 server along with enhaced ADSM v2.1.0.13 which required
> for the STK
> library model 9710. We have dedicated Solaris machine driving
> the STK
> library running ACSLS software v 5.1.1.
>
> Our upgrade plan is to install ADSM V3 on a new server running
> AIX 4.2.
> Install ACSLS version 5.2 on the new server as well. Since IBM
> is soon
> announcing its support for STK 9710 we will not need enhanced
> ADSM for
> this.
>
> Anyone out there who has done such upgrade and who can assist us
> in the
> planning, designing tips and identifying precautionary steps
> during the
> upgrade.
>
> We are also thinking of getting the ADSM DRM utility along with
> ADSM V3 as
> well. Anyone who has worked on the DRM and can give us a review
> will be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Naveed.
>
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