Re: Tape drive types?

[Nick Laflamme]

Colleen Brown wrote:

DEVTYPE might give you some of the information you are looking for. 
 Do a HELP DEVTYPE and you should find it.

At first glance, DEVTYPE works with virtual devices, not real devices. 
That's not a flaw, but it's a weakness compared to "Q cuu ID"

I'm pretty sure "Q cuu ID" gives me exactly what I want -- as long as I 
recognize when a 3590 model newer than I'm used to is too new for me to 
use safely, for example. That was the intent of my original question, 
however badly I wrote it. I need to hard code a list of responses I 
might see to "Q cuu ID" that might be functionally-close-enough to the 
"3590-11" I get right now on my production system.

Oh, well, I guess I can start with this as a way to separate the 3590s 
from the 3480s and worry about sub-types later if I start seeing HW 
errors while doing restores.

Thanks, all!

Nick