On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:34:16PM -0400, Thomas Denier wrote: > > 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.
You may also have to change the 3590 drive configuration (via the front panel) to something other than a E1A (or E1X). It may not work outside of the library When it is not communicating with the RS-422 interface (artic). bob
