Taking the drives offline should be adequate. You could also cancel any processes that are trying to access the tape drives while you are performing the upgrade.
-- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Villegas, Beatrice Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3494 Pause Mode and TSM Hi TSM'ers, I have a quick and perhaps simple question. We have to upgrade the firmware on all our 10 3590 drives and for this we need to put the Library in Pause mode. My question is: Should I stop TSM during this time? Or should I just put all the drives offline? Is there anything else I should do on TSM? Thanks in advance, Beatriz
