Joe, That depends on the level of TSM you're on. I've got six drives shared with three servers on three different levels. The two on 3.7.4 still drop a drive on occasion, but I haven't seen that on the test machine on 4.1.2. I can't tell you exactly, since this is Sunday am at home, but I think there's a 3590shared option also.
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Joe Faracchio wrote: > I'm looking for a second opinion, caveats and any "we've been there > (and its good/bad)" about tape sharing . Sharing that's NOT SAN stuff. > > In speaking with a level 1 (1.5-2!) TSM/3466 support person about > something else, we got around to the topic of 3590's cabled to two systesm > and he said I could have all four tape drives (3590-E1A's) online to both > 3466 NSMs and they will just go into POLLING mode until a drive becomes > available. AIX/TSM can play NICE-NICE with shared drives!!(??!) > > And all I need to do is put 3494SHared Yes in both server options files. > > Does this work? Work well? Any hang-ups? Crashes? Gothchas?? > > As long as I scheduled things so that there's little or no drive > contention does it work? > > thanks ... joe.f. > > Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley > Private mail on any topic should be directed to : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] COUNTDOWN: 148 days to my *first* retirement!!! > (510)642-7638 (w) (209)483-JOEF (M) > 5633 >
