Hello all,
 
   Being more at home with LTOs, I am facing the following. We have a 3494 
library with some 3592Gen1 drives. Recently, additional drives were installed, 
and they are 3592Gen2. My question is: can TSM identify by any means that a 
particular volume was written in Gen2 format and try to read them only on Gen2 
drives? That means that I should (possible answers):
 
1) Partition the 3494 with one library with Gen1 drives and one with Gen2 drives
2) Use all drives with FORMAT=3592C in the devclass definition (No! No!)
3) Use FORMAT=Drive and let TSM decide what to do
 
To complicate further: TSM Server is 5.3.4 on AIX 5.3, but I still have some 
storage agents at 5.2.3 level, who don't "understand" what 3592-2 is.
 
Thanks for your advice, 
Paul van Dongen

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