Hello Jim

With the 3584 ALMS optional feature, thing become even more interesting.

With ALMS you define volser ranges assigned to each virtual library, and I 
believe that you can not have one range assigned to more then one virtual 
library. The library assigns the tape to a virtual library based on the volser. 
With the latest library code level the i/o station is virtualized. So as the 
tapes are put into the entry port the library moves the tapes to storage slots 
and assigns them to a virtual i/o station up to a user defined max number. An 
interesting side is that when the library moves the tapes from the real i/o 
station to the storage slots it uses both grippers to move 2 tapes at a time.
But I believe that you can still use the web interface to unassign the tape and 
assign it a different virtual library. But I have not tried this other then our 
first testing.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Jim Zajkowski
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 4:21 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] 3584 logical library

On Dec 28, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Aaron Durkee wrote:

> When I eject a tape from one logical library into the exit / entry
> port and want to check it back into the other logical library via the
> exit / entry port I need to go to the web interface for the
> 3584 (or lcd panel) and manually move the tape to the other logical
> partition.

We have the same behavior here; the 3584 virtualizes the IO door between all 
library partitions, so tapes put in there by one partition do not show up in 
another.  Similarly, when you open the IO door the 3584 asks you which 
partition to assign the tapes to, and the tapes in the door at that point only 
show up there.

--Jim