Re: 3575 Magstar Tape Libraries

The later versions of the atape drive support multiple control paths to
the changer. The idea is that if you lose the drive which has the robotics
associated with it, the system can use one of the other control paths to
manage the robot.

Check the docs and readme for atape for more info.

-Lloyd


On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:43:41 -0600
"Lovekamp, Gregory" <Gregory.Lovekamp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote thusly:

> Yes, there are still some of these in use. In fact, I have just
> connected another one (purchased off used market) to our TSM server.
> The thing that has me a bit confused, and the reason for this message,
> is that instead of seeing six tape drives (/dev/rmt) and one media
> changer (/dev/smc), I see six tape drives and six changers for this
> additional library.
>
> Has anyone had experience with these and has an idea why this might
> occur? The library panel settings have it configured as one logical
> library. I haven't added it to TSM, yet; I'm only looking at it from an
> AIX perspective.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gregory.Lovekamp@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unix Administration and Support (217) 558-0810
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