Operation of this support outside of the true stand-alone environment is not intended. To determine the feasibility of this support within a non-IBM robotic tape library, contact the manufacturer of the robotic tape library. Also, if a vendor's tape device, emulating a 3490E or 3590 native device, is defined to the library, the manual tape library support will treat this device as a real 3490E or as a real 3590 Model B. When entered into the library, the media must be defined as its emulated media. It is then your installation's responsibility to manage media or device incompatibilities. This can be managed by keeping incompatible devices with the same emulated or real device type in separate libraries.

In addition, the manual tape library support can also be used to help manage the IBM System Storage® TS3400 Tape Library (3577 Model L5U). Even though the 3592 Model E05 and E06 drives in the TS3400 tape library are in an automated tape library, unlike the 3494 or 3584 tape libraries, the drives in the TS3400 report to the host as if they were stand-alone drives with cartridge loaders. As such, the normal system-managed tape library support that is available with the 3494 or 3584 tape libraries is not applicable to the TS3400. Instead, the drives in the TS3400 must be defined to the host as stand-alone tape drives. For information on the TS3400, refer to IBM System Storage TS3400 Tape Library Planning and Operator Guide and the IBM Whitepaper: Overview of IBM TS1120 Tape Controller Support for TS3400 Tape Library.