I find this statement disturbing - has anyone else found that ADSM V3.1.1.5
is unable to eject more than one volume from an STK 9710?

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Wanda Prather
The 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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Naveed Mustafa [SMTP:Naveed_Mustafa AT mckinsey DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 1998 7:33 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
> Subject:      DRM
>
> Hi All,
>
> We are in the implementation phase of the Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM).
> Our environment is that we are running ADSM Server Version 3.1.1.5 on AIX
> 4.2 machine with STK Library 9710 attached to the server utilizing the
> ACSLS Interface software Version 5.2.  The library contains 10 DLT 4000
> drives.
>
> My questions are as follows:
>
>    MOVE DRMEDIA command is used to send the storage pool backup volumes
>    offsite.  Are we required to execute CHECKOUT LIBVOL command to check
>    these volumes out of the library or MOVE DRMEDIA * WHERESTATE=MOUNTABLE
>    will eject all the tapes in the COPYPOOL out of the library?
>    What if we change the state directly from MOUNTABLE to VAULT, what will
>    be the volume checkout and ejection procedure?
>    IBM has told us that ADSM Version 3.x is not capable of checking out
>    multiple volumes out of the STK library.  Whenever there are two or
> more
>    volumes in the COPYPOOL, we have to manually checkout each of them
>    individually.  Has anyone implemented a workaround? Again, we are
>    running ACSLS Version 5.2 with STK 9710 library and the ADSM server
>    version is 3.1.1.5.
>
> Any comments in the aforementioned questions will be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Naveed.