3590B1A drives are 128 track drives.  Native capacity should be 10 GB.
They do not support the K tapes.  Upgrade to 3590E1A for that support and
256 track tapes.

Orville L. Lantto
Datatrend Technologies, Inc.
121 Cheshire Lane #700
Minnetonka, MN 55305





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Hi,

Customer is using TSM V4.1 server on Windows 2000, 3494-ATL, 3590B1A
drives which should support the Extended Length cartridges and 3590 model
K cartridges (20GB uncompressed).
"q vol" reports: Estimate Capacity is about 18GB, Status is FULL, Pct Util
is about 95-100% and Pct. Reclaimable Space is about 0-5% (There is no
tape with more then 18GB).
Compression is done on the Drive side.
FORMAT = DRIVE is defined on the Devclass.
I would expect that the Estimate Capacity should indicate the actual
capacity on the tapes (after compression), regardless of what is defined
on the Devclass.
Is this a real problem or only a report problem?

Any idea?


Nathan Himmel
Semech Software Marketing LTD.
Tel:(972)-3-5333144
Fax:(972)-3-5333132
Email:nathanh AT semech.co DOT il