We just went through this upgrade with 2 drives this past weekend and all
went pretty well. The only tapes that I had to set to "readonly" were those
in a "filling" status. I have run the library approx 10 hrs/day since then
and have not had any problems reading the old tapes. We have found a
handful of tapes with media related errors that could not be written to
once they had been reclaimed to scratch and we have been removing them from
the library.
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Subject: Upgradeing 3494 drives
We are upgradeing the drives in our 3494 library to:
-double the storage capacity of the J cartridges
-convert from SCSI to fibre
There seems to be a question of if we need to convert just one drive and
move the data to the newly defined lib / drive or can we simply convert
both drives, as long as the drives remain in the same library defined to
TSM.
Has anyone done this? The existing cartridges can be read by the upgraded
drives ( but noit written to ). I guess the question is will TSM use the
newly defined drives when a call for a cartridge with existing data is
made.
