On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Richard Sims wrote:

> >ADSM just does *not* deal well with drive failures, does it?
>
> My experience with 3590s in a 3494 is that ADSM does well with drive
> problems.  As seen in a SHOW LIBR, it knows when a drive or the
> library as a whole has gone bad, and will avoid using any device which
> is in a bad state.  Beyond that, it's up to ye olde operator to deal
> with tapes that the robot cannot (stuck in drive, broken, dropped,
> etc.).

Hey, that's an interesting command to know...  I wonder why "help show"
from inside the ADSM admin client doesn't mention this at all? :-)

Grrrr... stupid $%#@& obnoxious... undocumented stuff.

-brian.
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