Hi.........

We have just installed a brand new TS3310 ==> IBM 3576-L5B ATL.   Atape version 
is 11.2.7.0 and ATL version is 500GS002 which appears to be current.  TSM 
version is 5.4.3.2 and IBM 7026-H70 AIX V5.3.8.3.  We have an IBM 3584-L32/D32 
ATL which works differently concerning the checkin/checkout tapes via I/O 
slots.  Does the TS3310 I/O slots work differently as oppose to the IBM 
3584-L32/D32 ATL I/O slots.  See below for the TS3310 operational tasks.

We have run tapeutil -f /dev/smc0 inventory which shows robot, I/O slots, 
drives and library slots.

Step one of this morning.....
1)      Placed tapes into I/O slots
2)      IBM 3576 screen asked where the tapes should go system or cgoatl03 - 
hit cgoatl03 button and OK button
3)      Ran label libv 3576lib checkin=scr overwrite=yes search=bulk 
labelsource=barcode
4)      We found in activity log anr8386w messages -- slot xx of library 
3576lib is inaccessible, slot xx are the I/O slots

Step two this morning.....
1)      Placed tapes into I/O slots
2)      IBM 3576 screen asked where the tapes should go system or cgoatl03 - 
hit cgoatl03 button and OK button
3)      We went into IBM 3576 web GUI and manually moved the tapes from I/O 
slots to IBM 3576 library open slots
4)      Ran label libv 3576lib checkin=scr overwrite=yes search=bulk 
labelsource=barcode
5)      Ran q libv and showed the tapes as scratch tapes

Why do we need step #3 above??  Is this normal??