This must be a change in 4.1 -- I haven't looked there yet. I'm still on 3.7
which is quite happy to let me have 6 drives in one manual library. If 4.1
requires 6 manual libraries to support 6 drives, I can go that way as well
-- although I thought drives needed to be in the same library in order to do
copies and reclaims (I gotta go read the readme, I guess :-)
copies and reclaims (I gotta go read the readme, I guess :-)

We end up using the 3151 console of the S7A as our TSM monitor during D/R --
I do a swcons to /var/log/console.log at boot, then start TSM without the
'quiet' option with stdout and stderr redirected to /dev/console. Works like
a charm (stole the idea from the IBM SP startup process).

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: France, Don G (Pace) [mailto:don.france-eds AT EDS DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 11:46 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Does TSM support the 3581 LTO changer in manual mode?
>
>
> 6 Single, manual drives would be 6 different, manual
> libraries to TSM... see
> the README file (you are using 4.1.x, right?), for full info
> -- you should
> get "mount" requests (and unload messages) for the tapes...
> no big deal, but
> you'll need a console monitor.
>
> Don France
> EDS Infrastructure Engineering
> San Jose, CA
> mailto:dfrance AT pacbell DOT net
> PACE - http://www.pacepros.com
> Bus-Ph:   (408) 257-3037
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kauffman, Tom [mailto:KauffmanT AT NIBCO DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 7:55 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Does TSM support the 3581 LTO changer in manual mode?
>
>
> We've been running 9 DLT-7000 tape drives in an STK 9710
> library for almost
> 4 years now and aree looking at replacing it with a 3584 with
> LTO drives.
> The reason behind the question is that we currently have 6 DLT-7000
> stand-alone drives in our D/R contract. To avoid busting the
> budget, we're
> looking at changing the stand-alone DLT-7000s to 3580s.
>
> We currently run the stand-alone drives as a manual library
> with six drives
> during D/R. Our D/R contractor is telling us they aren't
> buying 3580 drives,
> they're buying 3581s and 3584s. We aren't in a position to do
> the 3584 this
> year for D/R (budget problems :(
>
> So -- can I convince TSM 3.7.4 or 4.x that I have a manual
> library of 6 3581
> drives (or six 3580 drives, with 3581s actually on the
> cable)? Or will I
> have to configure 6 3581 libraries and dink around with
> load/unload/checkout/checkin as we pass between 50 and 100
> tapes through
> them?
>
> This is a short-term problem -- one, maybe two D/R tests; I
> expect to have a
> full library available the second half of next year. Now that
> we can restore
> our SAP and Exchange servers in under 16 hours it's time to
> start doing the
> full *recovery* part of D/R, and that includes resuming
> normal TSM backups -
> and there's no way we'd be able to handle this with manual libraries.
>
> TIA
>
> Tom Kauffman
> NIBCO, Inc
>