You don't have to make any changes to TSM to run the 3494 in manual mode. That is a 3494 library setting. I'm not sure that you can define a drive in a 3494 as in a manual library (DEF LIBR LIBT=MANUAL).
I think there's a chapter in the 3494 operator guide that explains manual mode. No changes are required on any of the attached hosts to the library when it's running in manual mode. Been a while since I've played with a 3494, but at another site we had one...connected to TSM on AIX and a zServer mainframe. In the 4-years I was there, the robot only went offline twice. Just switched to manual mode and got an aerobics workout! Bill Boyer "Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ?? -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it? > I know some of you are thinking that I should have been able to use > the drives in a manual mode, and so did I at the time. But try as I > might, I couldn't get them to define in and change my STGPOOL > configurations to use the manual devices. We have a 3494. The last time we did a disaster recovery test our hotsite vendor gave use a group of 3590 tape drives without an automated library. We got this to work by defining a new manual library and updating the relevant device class to associate it with the new library. We did not make any changes in storage pool definitions.
