Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges

2003-03-26 Thread Justin Bleistein
I have a shared library tsm environment any ideas???: 03/26/03 23:25:45 ANRD pvrmp.c(1800): ThreadId<48> Attempt to recover volume handle for open volume "VR6136". --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix/TSM Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 566 - 3600 Cel

Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges

2002-12-12 Thread Seay, Paul
7:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges and if you've ever had a notch tab fall out and get lost...in a pinch you can (for a K tape) get the bottom one from a J tape and the top one from a cleaning tape. The colors will be all out of whack but the slots

Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges

2002-12-12 Thread Cook, Dwight E
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 11:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges And, if you look at a J and a K tape on the notches you will notice that they have a different configuration. So, if you put a K tape in a J only drive, it will

Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges

2002-12-11 Thread Seay, Paul
AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges Should see a "2X" sticker on the back of your 3590 drive if it is set to deal with double length tapes. Also the internal tape spool is green (along with one or two other internal parts, I seem to recall) so you mig

Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges

2002-12-11 Thread Cook, Dwight E
to double check (if you don't find a "2X" sticker on the drive) Dwight -Original Message- From: Jim Sporer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 4:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges There is a difference betw

Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges

2002-12-10 Thread Richard Sims
>At the moment we use about 900 J-cartridges in our library. Is it possible >to checkin K-cartridges and use them besides the J-cartridges. To bolster Jim Sporer's reply: yes, it is commonly done. We've been doing it for quite a while, largely treating the J tapes a "prior generation" and so best

Re: K-cartridges besides J-cartridges

2002-12-10 Thread Jim Sporer
There is a difference between the J and K tapes and the 3590 drives need to support the extended length tapes. If the drives are new there is no problem but older 3590E drives may need an upgrade to support the extended length tapes. Check with your CE. Jim Sporer At 11:12 PM 12/10/2002 +0100,

K-cartridges besides J-cartridges

2002-12-10 Thread brian welsh
Hello, AIX 5.1, TSM 4.2.1.19, IBM 3494 library, 3590E-drives At the moment we use about 900 J-cartridges in our library. Is it possible to checkin K-cartridges and use them besides the J-cartridges. During upgrade from our drives from 3590B to 3590E we changed status of our volumes to read-only