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Howard I suspect it can be that easy under LPAR. However LPAR gives you additional function. So instead of buying the extra card, you can transfer the card from one partition to the other. That's the part that 'seems complicated'. Understand? You can't get (sanely) mad at someone for giving you more options. You can get upset at how them implemented some of those options. :-) Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin "Weatherly, Howard" <Howard.Weatherly@dli To: "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com> s.dla.mil> cc: Sent by: Fax to: midrange-l-admin@midr Subject: RE: Shared tape drive for 2 LPARs ange.com 08/08/2002 09:59 AM Please respond to midrange-l This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Rob, That is/was more or less our setup when the backup machine was here, and we varied off on one varied on the other. We did not really have a need to automate that although every so often I got caught writing to a tape that the other machine owned at that moment. I just thought it would be that simple with LPARS, but I guess not! -----Original Message----- From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com] Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 10:54 AM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: RE: Shared tape drive for 2 LPARs This is a multipart message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Howard, I wonder if the question is being understood by all interested parties. Not that this is what the originator is proposing, but I think what someone wondered is similar to the following. Here at Dekko we have multiple iSeries. We have two 3590's, two 3581's and a host of 1/4" cartridges, (not to mention the special purpose 8mm's, 9348). On one of these 3590's we have two cables. One goes to one iSeries - the other cable goes to another iSeries. To use this on one machine you vary it off on one and vary it on on the other. I suppose you could duplicate enough hardware to do this in a LPAR solution. After all, all you would need is one additional card to drive the 3590. So this leaves you some options: Buy the additional hardware to share tape drives Buy additional tape drives Buy additional software to not have to buy another card or cable Roll your own software to not have to buy another card or cable Convert to paper and pencil Which method you choose is often a business decision. (Although the roll-your-own sometimes involves copious quantities of stubbornness. (Replaced testosterone with stubbornness to avoid some people thinking I was saying male intelligence, and, to also stop slamming members of my gender.)) Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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