Um -- why are you using the drives? Use -checklabel=no on the checkout and -checklabel=barcode on the checkin and bypass the label chack on the tape. We've had a 3584 with LTO drives of one type or another for seven years now, or thereabouts, and NEVER check the labels on checkout/checkin - and have never had problems as a result.
On checkin we do -search=bulk and take all the tapes in the I/O station; for checkout we build our list of volumes and chuck the checkout command in with -remove=bulk (we have ALMS, so we don't worry about how many tapes will come out, but it's not hard to script things to remove tapes in groups of 16 if needed). Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Zajkowski Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Checkin on a 3584/TS3500 using more than one drive at a time? Hi there, Whenever we checkin/checkout tapes from our 3584, TSM only uses on drive at a time. It does round-robin through the drives, but is there some setting I'm missing that would have it load up more than one drive at the same time? We're running 5.5.2 --Jim CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.
