RE: Move a tape drive to another partition

Art,

On the source LPAR, if you go into SST, hardware resources, you can drill down, find your library, you will see what all is attached to the IOP.

Logical Hardware Resources Associated with IOP

Type options, press Enter.
2=Change detail 4=Remove 5=Display detail 6=I/O debug
7=Verify 8=Associated packaging resource(s)

Resource
Opt Description Type-Model Status Name
Virtual IOP 577D-001 Operational CMB03
Storage IOA 577D-001 Operational DC02
Tape Library 3573-040 Operational TAPMLB02
Tape Unit 3580-007 Operational TAP01
Tape Unit 3580-007 Operational TAP02
Tape Library 3573-040 Operational TAPMLB01
Tape Unit 3580-007 Operational TAP03
Tape Unit 3580-007 Operational TAP04

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Art Tostaine, Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2017 7:22 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Move a tape drive to another partition

Thanks Paul. I'll give it a try once I figure out what else is on that adapter. I should be OK because the people who setup the system were doing this during testing.

Art

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Art,

I've done this often.
You don't move the tape library, but the IO adapter that the library
is attached to.
Note, ensure that the adapter driving your tape library doesn't have
any disk drives attached also, or you will crash your system.

1) Vary off library on source LPAR
2) On HMC, source LPAR, dynamic partitioning, physical adapters, move
or remove, select, in my case, 8 gb dual port fiber channel adapter,
pick the LPAR being moved to.
3) Takes about 2 minutes, wait for adapter to report in on target.
4) Vary on libarary on target LPAR

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Art Tostaine, Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2017 5:58 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Move a tape drive to another partition

I have a 8202-E4D that hosts 2 mimix backup partitions and a dev
partition.

I need to do a full save on the partition that doesn't have the tape
library attached to it. It's a TS3100.

Can I use the HMC to move the tape device to the other partition? I
was looking around the options and I don't see it.

I realize I can screw up a lot of stuff in there but if I can identify
the tape drive I should be OK.


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