TS1120 and J1A drives will have to be in different logical libraries similar to having two different types of LTO drives in the same physical library. I don't believe that different logical libraries can share scratch tapes.
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:48 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: 3592 scratch pools We have a 5.3.4.0 TSM server running under mainframe Linux. It will be upgraded to 5.4.2.0 in the next few weeks. We currently have 3592J drives used for all primary tape storage pools and a few copy pools. We have 3590 drives used for most of the copy pools. We are preparing to order some TS1120 tape drives, which will be used for all copy pools. All of the existing drives are in the same 3494 tape library, and the TS1120 drives will be installed in this library. The TS1120 drives will operate with application managed encryption. We would like to use the higher density format available with the TS1120. Will it be possible for the 3592J drives and the TS1120 drives to share a pool of scratch tapes?