Re: INZTAP V5R4 Oddity

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 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.