I don't know if you can boot fibre tape. If not, this would most likely be a firmware limitation. If any system would allow it, the p650 would.
The boot media, whether it be mksysb-CD, NIM or SCSI tape, will need to have Atape and the fibre drivers in it. Make sure you're at current firmware for the 7038-6M2. The atldd driver won't work since I don't think it'll start atldd nor include mtlib in the boot image, etc. You could manually mount the tapes in the drive via: A) one drive set up as an autoloader with a specific category of tapes. B) offline the drive to tsm and use mtlib commands from another system to mount the tape. That drive would have to be shared with the other system in order to issue the eject IOCTL to the drive afterwards. The main concern here is to make sure you don't grab the wrong tape. C) Offline the whole library and move tapes from the front panel. D) I think TSM has some rudimentary tracking of non-tsm system backup volumes, but I don't know what state that is in or what the commands are off-hand. Look into that to see if it can help. -Josh On 04.03.22 at 14:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:35:43 -0500 > From: Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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? >
