Re: I/O features not planned to be supported beyond V5R3

Took our operations lady a few days to dup tapes to the new drives, each 
upgrade.  But the newer drives have made the pain worthwhile in improved 
speed and capacity.  Helps that we always have at least one machine with 
two drives in it to do a dup tape.  Sometimes more.  Worst case was duping 
from one cartridge to a 3581 on that machine.  Then duping the 3581 to a 
3582 on another machine.


Rob Berendt
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Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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Since they are not going to support 170 or 7XX boxes,
that doesn't leave many machines to put those feature
codes in does it ???

This is one way to really leave a lot of older machines
in the dust...

They apparently forgot that pledge thing about not leaving
any customers behind ???(except those who buy new machines)

I assume the price of hardware is going to be sooo low that
everybody will buy one.

I'm just trying to imagine all those billions of backup
tapes on obsolete media....(just kidding)

I can hear it now, "Uhhh, those new 200tb tape drives can't
seem to read any of our old backup tapes".


Neil Palmer/DPS wrote:

> Has everyone taken a close look at this list?  There are a lot of 
features 
> many customers have in this list, including such recently (some still 
> currently) sold features as the 4/8GB, 16/32GB, 25/50GB & 30/60GB QIC 
> tapes and 8.58GB & 17.54GB disks.
> 
> 
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/support/planning/v5r3planning.html



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