No problem using the old tapes.
I am only trying to write as much as possible on my tapes.

Yours

Matthias

Am 11/5/10 2:23 PM, schrieb Huebschman, George J.:

There is no backward compatibility from E05 to E06?
If that is the case you might want to create a new library for the E06 media.  
You could also limit the tape volser ranges available to the new drives.

I'd expect that if a drive loaded a tape with an incompatible format, it would 
recognize that.  Is that not the case?

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Matthias Feyerabend
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Subject: [ADSM-L] IBM3592-E06 resp. TS1130


   Hello,

we replaced our IBM3592-E05 with new IBM3592-E06. On long media (JB)
they store 1 TB instead 700 GB which is almost 50 % more.

My question is
"How to distinguish E05 written media from E06 written ?"

First approach is to look when the first file was written. If it is
after our replacement of the drives, it has to be in E06 format.
TSM only provides me of the last written date, but if some files are
already written in E05 format I suspect that for the rest of the tape
the format will not be changed and written in E05-Format, too.

Is there some way to recognize if a given tape is written in E05 or E06
format ?

My second question relates to the first one.
My plan is to set E05 written tapes to READONLY and do a move data for
each volume in E05-format  to get all data newly written in E06 format.

Something more clever than that ?


Matthias

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