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There's the reason. The 3580 on one of the boxes is an Ultrium 1.

It would not have an Ultrium 2 density available.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 9/16/2010 1:57 PM, Jack Kingsley wrote:
I ran the ITDT tool and one drive is a ULT3580-TD1, the other is a
ULT3580-TD2??

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:01 PM, DrFranken<midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That is seemingly odd. Over the life of the O/S support for many tape
> drives was done via PTF so missing PTFs had that affect. However 3580
> and Ultrium2 drives were supported LONG before V5R4 ever hit the
> streets. The OTHER way that can be affected is if there is a prompt
> control program running which looks to see what tape drives you have on
> your system and only allows values for drives detected. Do you have an
> Ultrium drive on one system but not the other?
>
> - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
>
> On 9/16/2010 12:36 PM, Jack Kingsley wrote:
> > Got one box on V5R4 with a 3580 tape drive, the other is on V5R4 as well
> but
> > different PTF levels. On the inztap command one of the format density's
> to
> > select is *ULTRIUM2. On another machine the *ULTRIUM2 does not show up.
> > Any ideas. I have confirmed that the microcode levels are the same on
> > both tape drives.

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