I realized that a little later. For some reason my brain just wasn't in gear along these lines, as I was trying to get ready for something else. I, for some reason, thought you had summarized what the techdoc was about, and never went to read it. My Bad. Bruno also forwarded the correct info to the list earlier as well, but by the time I came back to the list I had already opened the call.
See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO2s not mounting in LTO4 drives On May 17, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Howard Coles wrote: > Well, Ladies and Gents I have found a solution. I opened a PMR with IBM, and they found (after we went through all the queries you can think of) this technote: "http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&context=SSGSG7&uid=swg 21269453&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en". > > In it, it says to set all volumes to read-only (which will work if you have all the storage pools set to read only that use LTO2 tapes), and update your device class and set "format=drive". Once I did the last part (all the storage pools were already set) TSM loaded up an LTO2 and started moving data. Howard, That's the Technote I told you about yesterday afternoon (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg86356.html), which I had found quickly. Richard Sims, apparently wasting his time in Boston
