Re: Tape hardware resources

[rick baird <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Kirk is right about trying to move the 5704 off of the same bus as any
> disk controllers.  HUGE performance differences are possible.
>
> Are you saying you had an old library named TAPMLB02 and it was in all
> your backup programs and stuff and you don't want to change all that to
> TAPMLB03?

As near as I can tell, yes that's what they did.

> No problem.  Look for the device TAPMLB03 vary it off, rename
> it and vary it back on.  Don't have a TAPMLB03, just your old TAPMLB02?

The second option.  no devd exists for 03, only 02.

> Well, there's a couple of solutions for that.  One is to edit the TAPMLB02
> device and change your resource name from TAPMLB02 to the new TAPMLB03.
> Find that confusing?  Well, the more hardware adept may try this

That was the way it is now.  the problem is the device descriptions don't match.

I'm going to let IBM support handle it.  That's what they should have
done in the first place.