... >We are soon going to be upgrading our 3590 B1A drives to the H1A models so >that we can squeeze loads more on the tapes and free up slots in our >soon-to-be-filled library. > >Now, as far as I am aware, this is a relatively simple operation. Am I >right in thinking that all that needs to be done after the drives have been >upgraded is to mark all tapes that are presently in the on-site Tapepool >(in the library) as read only. After this, only scratch tapes will be used >and I will be free to start running some movedata commands to start >consolidating tapes (using the new higher compression). ...
3590H upgrading is fully covered in the server README file.
