Iban, That's what I had already concluded. And the real problem is TSM refuses to stick a tape associated with a generictape device class into an LTO drive, no matter what you do! And even if I define a manual library, when I define the LTO4 drive to that library, TSM knows that there are no mount points in that library that will take a generictape.
I was hoping there was some really super secret thing. Your idea about starting from scratch and letting old stuff die is what we determined to do. Kelly J. Lipp VP Manufacturing & CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ibán Bernaldo de Quirós Márquez Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 3:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Moving from Generictape device class to LTO device class In my opinion, The only thing you can do is to create new pools with new device class and format LTO4 and put the new pools in production. Then you have to set the nextstgpool parameter of old stgpools with the name of the new ones created, if you want to migrate all the data now. If not then wait for data expiration. If you want to accelerate the process then you should migrate, or do move data's to put information on new pools. The problem is that we can not update the device class setting of a stgpool because the device class specifies the recording format so it is something like the nature of a stgpool that could not be changed. Hope this helps !! Regards, Ibán. Hope this helps, Kelly Lipp wrote: > Iban, > > We were using the IBM driver but the generictape in TSM. Yes, they are IBM > LTO4 drives. > > > Kelly J. Lipp > VP Manufacturing & CTO > STORServer, Inc. > 485-B Elkton Drive > Colorado Springs, CO 80907 > 719-266-8777 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Ibán Bernaldo de Quirós Márquez > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Moving from Generictape device class to LTO > device class > > Are they LTO drives from IBM ¿? > > Were you using the generic device driver of the OS or were you using the IBM > device driver ¿? > > Depending on how it was configured we can try one way or another ... > > Let me know !! > > Regards, > Ibán. > > Kelly Lipp wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> About five months ago, I created a device class of generictape to use >> LTO4 drives in a new STORServer I built. Now, with the newest >> version of TSM, LTO4 is supported and the library knows about them >> and generictape won't work anymore (wrong kind of mountpoint in the >> library). >> >> Anybody have a clever way of getting my generic tape volumes into my >> new LTO storage pool? >> >> Kelly J. Lipp >> VP Manufacturing & CTO >> STORServer, Inc. >> 485-B Elkton Drive >> Colorado Springs, CO 80907 >> 719-266-8777 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >>
