ADSM-L

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 14:29:03
Subject: Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?
From: Bob Booth - UIUC <booth AT UIUC DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:28:37 -0500
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:34:16PM -0400, Thomas Denier wrote:
> >  I know some of you are thinking that I should have been able to
> > use the drives in a manual mode, and so did I at the time. But try as I
> > might, I couldn't get them to define in and change my STGPOOL
> > configurations to use the manual devices.
>
> We have a 3494. The last time we did a disaster recovery test our
> hotsite vendor gave use a group of 3590 tape drives without an
> automated library. We got this to work by defining a new manual
> library and updating the relevant device class to associate it
> with the new library. We did not make any changes in storage pool
> definitions.

You may also have to change the 3590 drive configuration (via the front panel)
to something other than a E1A (or E1X).  It may not work outside of the library
When it is not communicating with the RS-422 interface (artic).

bob