As always, I keep saying thanks for your fount of knowledge/experience.
Sounds like there hasn't been a monumental change from the way the 3494
works. There have always been issues with track/frame alignment and
re-alignment due to settling/loading/usage.
I have passed this on to my superiors and they aren't too happy about the
huge difference in time estimates. Looks like it is going to be a long,
long Memorial Day weekend! Planned to start Friday morning to empty the
1200+ tapes from the 3494 and release it to IBM by noon. Might have to
push back to Thursday.
"burn-in" was my poor choice of words. In my mind, they have already
tested/"burned in" the library before handing over the keys to the
customer. I guess their install doesn't include the configuration of the
library - I get all that fun....
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Prather, Wanda <Wanda.Prather AT icfi DOT
com>wrote:
> From what I've observed, the 3584 doesn't' just drop in.
> There is a lot of positioning and leveling and connecting and wiring and
> testing by the FE when you have multiple frames.
> I'd say 8 hours might be enough to do a single L-frame.
> But 7 drive frames is a lot.
>
> OTOH, when he says "burn in", I'm assuming he means the time to run the
> test exercises of the actuator that they do, and they do need to run it a
> significant amount of time. But I've never had an FE tell me that the
> customer needs to do a "burn in". They've always turned them over to me
> ready to rock and roll.
>
> W
>
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> Subject: [ADSM-L] TS3500/3584 installation time frame
>
> As you are aware from previous posts, we are heading into a "deinstall 3494
> - install 3584". This is a pull-push since we don't have the floor
> space/power to run both.
>
> We met with Mainline/IBM yesterday and concerns were raised about the time
> slot being allotted to this project - roughly 24-hours and if needed,
> 48-hours. The comment from the IBM SE/FE was they usually allow a week for
> an install/burn-in of a 3584. Originally, the Mainline (sales) person
> threw out 8-hours for deinstall of the 3494 (this is for scrap/parts - no
> care taken in how it is taken apart and removed) and 8-hours for the 3584
> install.
>
> So, I am looking for experiences on how long it took for you to get your
> 3584 installed and what, if any, issues there were.
>
> We are removing a 12-frame 3494 and pushing in a 7-frame TS3500/3584 (1-L23
> 6-D23)
>
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