HP is the one that has said that they will never support IBM SCSI LTO
drives attached to a SAN via a 2108. They do have plans to support
native Fibre IBM LTO drives.
Adolph
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Suad Musovich
Sent: September 5, 2001 6:30 AM
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Subject: Re: SAN - HP - Brocade Switch - LTO Library
HP now are in the process of buying Compaq so never isn't the operative
word
;)
Suad
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On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:02:50PM -0400, Adolph Kahan wrote:
> I don't believe that the HP support for IBM LTO is available yet. I
> could be wrong. Are the drives in the 3584 native fibre drives? If
they
> are not then this will never work.
>
> Adolph
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf
Of
> Matthew Large
> Sent: September 4, 2001 9:27 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: SAN - HP - Brocade Switch - LTO Library
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Does anyone have the following environment?
>
> Compaq SAN with Brocade Fibre Channel SAN switch attached LTO 3584.
> Fibre
> cards are HP A5158A Tachyon PCI Adaptors. TSM HP Server.
> I'd like to know if the HP server will see the tape drives through
the
> Compaq SAN. I understand it may not, but I'd like to be sure.
>
> Thanks (in advance of your numerous replies)
> MAtthew LArge
>
>
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