Thanks Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: 3590 extended length
> >...when I do an "mtlib" to check the inventory, I noticed that there
> > is a 01 in the last field , i am not sure what this indicates
>
> Stephen - In addition to planting a new lmcpd, installing the atldd
> device driver package also installs header file mtlibio.h
> in /usr/include/sys/ on Unix systems. In there, and in conjunction
> with the IBM SCSI...Device Drivers manual, you can deduce what's what.
> In this case, the 01 is in the vol_class bits, and identifies the
> Volume Type.
>
> >Then I checked volume adsm and it shows "PCT Util" at 100%
> >ecen though the "Volume Status" is "Filling"
>
> That's just a reflection of your Devclass Estcapacity being overly
> conservative. As mentioned many times in ADSM-L, the PCT Util
> values you see are meaningless for tape, because unlike disk the
> true capacity is not known until end-of-tape is encountered...
> kind of like walking into a wall in the dark. You can Update your
> Devclass to have whatever capacity value you find when your tapes
> finally fill, based upon the workload type. Often, this number is
> all over the place, so most customers don't bother doing the update
> as it's usually pointless.
>
> Richard Sims, BU
>
