John Kapturowski wrote: > > Here is the background information on our system: > - 3494 Magstar Robotic tape library with 3590 B drives
You don't say whether you'll be upgrading your tape drives when you add 3590K cartridges into the mix. The original 3590 B drives don't support 3590K cartridges (aka, "extended length"). I don't recall whether they offered an extended length upgrade for the model B drives that didn't involve converting them to model E or model H drives. But make sure you either have drives that support the "K" tapes or are upgrading your drives so they will be able to support "K" tapes. If the drives have a green "2x" sticker on the back, you _should_ be good, but you might want to double-check with your support engineer. (The green sticker matches the green tabs and leader block on the "K" tapes.) Upgrading to model E or model H involves changing the number of tracks written on a tape. If you do a model upgrade, you'll have to change all of your non-empty cartridges to read-only and, after the drive upgrade, migrate all the data to empty cartridges. You can still use your "J" tapes (and get higher capacity on them, too), but the drives can only write at their newer track density. This is covered in a number of TSM server device README documents. Good luck with your growth! =Dave -- Hello World. David Bronder - Systems Admin Segmentation Fault ITS-SPA, Univ. of Iowa Core dumped, disk trashed, quota filled, soda warm. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
