Thomas Denier wrote: > ----- Skylar Thompson wrote: ----- > > >> I could try dd'ing a megabyte of zeros to the beginning of the >> tape, but I'd have to stop TSM to do that. >> > > I don't think you have to stop TSM for this. We once needed to use > a non-TSM tape utility to download new microcode to our tape drives. > We used 'update drive' and 'update path' commands with 'online=no' > to take each drive and associated path offline long enough to run > the utility. Once a drive was upgraded we used similar commands > with 'online=yes' to make the drive and path available to TSM > again. All of our drives were upgraded with the TSM server up > and running. I am not sure we really needed to take both drives > and paths offline. We decided it was easier to do both than toresearch the > issue. > I'll have to give that a shot. Thanks for the idea!
-- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Systems Administrator, Genome Sciences Department -- University of Washington, School of Medicine
