Yes you can, but you need to upgrade to at least 3.1.2.50. We needed to do
so. Lower levels will not be able to use the extended length feature.
But when you use both tape lengths at the same time you have to do the
following first, or else you will end up having many read/write errors. This
is because the difference in number of tracks.
1. update all single length tapes to access=reado
2. move alle data of all single length tapes to scratch tapes.
3. update all tapes back to access=readw
The tape drives will not be able write 256 tracks on a 128 tracks tape.
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Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Irene
Braun
Verzonden: dinsdag 29 augustus 2000 20:00
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Moving from single length to extended length 3590 cartridge
tapes.
We are currently using single length 3590 cartridge tapes and would like
to move to using extended length tapes. We are running ADSM 3.1.2.40 on
AIX.
Can the two different tape length types co-exist in ADSM and if so how can
this be accomplished? Does it entail defining a second virtual library with
a separate device class etc. Would it be simple to manage? Is there
any
online documentation discussing this procedure?
Thanks, Irene
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