When I last checked (about a month ago), you cannot boot AIX from fibre attached tape
(disk is ok). You would definitely have to boot from other media (eg CD) to use these
tapes. You would then have to manually mount the tape by taking the library offline
and using the library front panel before requesting the restore from, say, /dev/rmt0.
You will have to get someone to confirm that the fibre attached drives can be 'seen'
by AIX after the system has been booted from CD. They may not be valid restore
sources at this point.
Cheers,
Dave..
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Thomas Denier
Sent: Tue 3/23/2004 6:35 AM
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Subject: mksysb tapes on fibre-attached 3590
We are considering migrating our TSM system to an AIX system with 3590
tape drives in a 3494 tape library. The drives would be connected using
FCP (Fibre Channel Protocol). The host would be a pSeries system. We are
currently leaning toward a p650.
Given this configuration, would it be possible to restore AIX using
3590 mksysb tapes? If so, would it done by booting from tape or by
booting from CD and telling the software to read a mksysb tape? How
would we deal with the library? In particular, would we have to use
the stand-alone tape feature of the library?
