Replacing tape drives

If you replace a drive in a tape library that is defined to IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager, you must delete the drive and path definitions for the old drive and define the new drive and path.

Replacing drive and path definitions is required even if you are exchanging one drive for another of the same type, with the same logical address, physical address, SCSI ID, and port number. Device alias names can change when you change your drive connections.

If the new drive is an upgrade that supports a new media format, you might be required to define a new logical library, device class, and storage pool. Procedures for setting up policy for a new drive in a multiple-drive library varies, depending on the types of drives and media in the library.