check the format= option on your device class... On 12 jun. 2012, at 08:02, Roger Deschner wrote:
> We have a tape library (Oracle/Sun/STK SL500) which contains both LTO-4 > and LTO-5 drives, and both LTO-4 and LTO-5 media. I am trying to keep > TSM from mounting an LTO-4 cartridge in an LTO-5 drive, but it is > insisting on doing it anyway. > > We have 4 LTO-4 drives and 3 LTO-5 drives. The mount limits for the two > devclasses are set accordingly - to 4 for the LTO-4 devclass and 3 for > the LTO-5 devclass. When a request to mount an LTO-4 cartridge comes, it > seems to use any of the 7 drives, regardless of whether it is an LTO-4 > or LTO-5 drive. Therefore some tape mounts for LTO-5 cartridges are > failing or being delayed due to there being no available LTO-5 drives > when some of them are occupied by LTO-4 tapes. This is despite the claim > in the section of the TSM Administrator's Guide for AIX servers titled > "Mount limits in LTO mixed-media environments" (on book page 221 / > physical page 249 in TSM V6.2 for AIX, or book page 198 / physical page > 232 at V6.3) that setting the mountlimit to the actual number of > earlier-generation drives will prevent the use of later-generation > drives for the earlier-generation devclass. > > BTW, this is a library manager configuration, which may complicate > things. The devclass definititions do match on the library manager and > both of its library clients. The library manager is at 6.2.2.30, and its > two clients are at 5.5.6.0 and 6.2.2.30. > > So, the question is, how do I prevent LTO-4 cartridges from being > mounted in LTO-5 drives? I would prefer not to use the hardware library > partitioning feature, which has its own set of hassles. > > Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [email protected] > ==== "NO OVERNIGHT CAMPING AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER SYSTEM IN OPERATION" ==== > ==== --sign, I-70 rest area, Parachute, Colorado ======================= -- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards, Remco Post [email protected] +31 6 248 21 622
