Our TS 3500 tape library can be configured to report volume labels as six digits or eight. We've used six digit identifiers all along, but as I read materials on mixing LTO drive (and tape) levels in the same partition, I suspect we should have gone to eight volume labels all along so TSM has the indicators of a tape's technology level.
If I tell the TS 3500 to start reporting volume labels as eight digit labels, are all of my tapes with six digit internal labels suddenly going to be useless? Or does TSM accept a six-digit label written on the tape itself if it matches the first six characters of the external label? Hoping for a pleasant surprise, Nick
