Re: QIC to VXA-2 Tape

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil,

 I can't swear to it but there is no reason this wouldn't work.  The 
physical , electrical and interface requirements are all met.  You will 
have to IPL to recognize the QIC but it should work just fine.  I have 
moved tapes around for this purpose many times, even tapes that are NOT  
supported and usually all is well.

- Larry

ps: Somes I push the 'not supported' thing a bit further than 
otherss...  http://www.frankenseries.com/gallery-frankie.html

Neil Palmer wrote:

> Have a customer who will probably shortly be moving from a 270 to an 810. 
> They will be changing from 25GB QIC tape to 80GB VXA-2.  So one concern is 
> obviously tape converion during the migration.  I see these possibilities:
>
> 1) Find a system with the capability to handlt both 25GB QIC & VXA-2 and 
> DUPTAP.
>
> 2) Order the 810 with a 5702 PCI-X Tape Controller (or rent/borrow one) 
> and attach a rented or borrowed  7207-330 external 30GB QIC.
>
> 3) After saving the 270 to tape, remove the 4586 25GB QIC drive from the 
> 270, remove the 4585 VXA-2 drive from the 810, install the 4586, restore 
> the backup from the 270, then switch the tape drives back.
>
> The last one is the one I have questions about.  I'm 99.99% sure this 
> should work fine - the System Builder does list the 25GB 4586 as one of 
> the internal tape drives attachable to the 810 .  The CD, DVD & Internal 
> tapes are all the same size and in the past I've removed a CD drive from a 
> model 400 to install a 2nd internal QIC drive and that went OK.  Does 
> anyone know for sure that #3 above would work?
>
> ...Neil
> _____