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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:43 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] 6 vs 8 (volume la
On Nov 28, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Nick Laflamme wrote:
Oh, this is embarrassing. Could someone, perhaps from ADSM
development,
explain Technote 1212111, please? It says explicitly that
Different generations of media are identified by the trailing 2
barcode characters of an 8-character external
Wanda Prather wrote:
TSM doesn't know anything about the technology level of the media just
because you are using the 8 digits. TSM doesn't care, in fact. If it
did, it wouldn't be happy sticking an LTO2 cartridge into an LTO3
drive (which is a legitimate thing to do).
The LIBRARY uses the last
TSM doesn't know anything about the technology level of the media just
because you are using the 8 digits. TSM doesn't care, in fact.
If it did, it wouldn't be happy sticking an LTO2 cartridge into an LTO3
drive (which is a legitimate thing to do).
The LIBRARY uses the last 2 digits, I think, to
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
