Both of our TSM/EE servers are at version 6.3.2 running on RHEL5. Each server has a 3584 ATL attached to it with both 3592-E06 and 3592-E05 tape drives installed. The 3592-E05 drives were not removed when the 3592-E06 drives were added. Now we have an urgent need for more tape drives, and we are to use the 3592-E05 drives to fulfill that need. All 3592-JB cartridges in the 3584 have already been written to by a 3592-E06 drive, and there is no budget for new cartridges. There should be enough scratch tapes for the new data, they're just the wrong format.
A 3592-E05 drive cannot read or write a cartridge that has been written by a 3592-E06 drive. A process is needed to re-label or re-format a set of cartridges for the exclusive use of the 3592-E05 drives. Can this be done with TSM? Or, can it be done with IBM Tape Diagnostic Tool ? Thank you, Keith Arbogast
