Bill,

One other thing you might recommend to them is to get 2 LTO3 drives.  If
not, you are going to have problems doing space reclamation on the LTO3
volumes.  Now if they do that you could then consider partitioning the
library (3583 does support that, although I think it is an additional
option) and not having to deal with the mixed formats with in the library.

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William Boyer wrote:

I know it's supported, and the Admin Guide doesn't say very much about the 
actual mechanics and pros/cons of doing it, but I have a
client that has a 3853 with 3-LTO1 drives. They have a very specific 
application that requires large capacity, but a limited budget.
They are looking at adding a single LTO-3 drive to the existing library and an 
additional storage column. Searching the archives I
did run across a post about having to use the specific FORMAT=ULTRIUMx instead 
of FORMAT=DRIVE to create 2 separate device classes.
Then define a storage pool for the LTO-3 and direct this high capacity 
application to that stgpool.



Anyone willing to share real-world experiences on defining the environment and 
any problems encountered??



They are running 5.2.3.0 on AIX 5.2. I know I need to bring them up to 5.2.4.0 
for LTO-3 support plus upgrade the Atape drivers.



Bill Boyer

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