As always, I keep saying thanks for your fount of knowledge/experience. Sounds like there hasn't been a monumental change from the way the 3494 works. There have always been issues with track/frame alignment and re-alignment due to settling/loading/usage.
I have passed this on to my superiors and they aren't too happy about the huge difference in time estimates. Looks like it is going to be a long, long Memorial Day weekend! Planned to start Friday morning to empty the 1200+ tapes from the 3494 and release it to IBM by noon. Might have to push back to Thursday. "burn-in" was my poor choice of words. In my mind, they have already tested/"burned in" the library before handing over the keys to the customer. I guess their install doesn't include the configuration of the library - I get all that fun.... On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Prather, Wanda <wanda.prat...@icfi.com>wrote: > From what I've observed, the 3584 doesn't' just drop in. > There is a lot of positioning and leveling and connecting and wiring and > testing by the FE when you have multiple frames. > I'd say 8 hours might be enough to do a single L-frame. > But 7 drive frames is a lot. > > OTOH, when he says "burn in", I'm assuming he means the time to run the > test exercises of the actuator that they do, and they do need to run it a > significant amount of time. But I've never had an FE tell me that the > customer needs to do a "burn in". They've always turned them over to me > ready to rock and roll. > > W > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Zoltan Forray > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 9:58 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] TS3500/3584 installation time frame > > As you are aware from previous posts, we are heading into a "deinstall 3494 > - install 3584". This is a pull-push since we don't have the floor > space/power to run both. > > We met with Mainline/IBM yesterday and concerns were raised about the time > slot being allotted to this project - roughly 24-hours and if needed, > 48-hours. The comment from the IBM SE/FE was they usually allow a week for > an install/burn-in of a 3584. Originally, the Mainline (sales) person > threw out 8-hours for deinstall of the 3494 (this is for scrap/parts - no > care taken in how it is taken apart and removed) and 8-hours for the 3584 > install. > > So, I am looking for experiences on how long it took for you to get your > 3584 installed and what, if any, issues there were. > > We are removing a 12-frame 3494 and pushing in a 7-frame TS3500/3584 (1-L23 > 6-D23) > > -- > *Zoltan Forray* > TSM Software & Hardware Administrator > Virginia Commonwealth University > UCC/Office of Technology Services > zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 > Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will > never use email to request that you reply with your password, social > security number or confidential personal information. For more details > visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html > -- *Zoltan Forray* TSM Software & Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html
