WORM Capabilities - iSeries tape

["Haase, Justin C." <justin.haase@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good morning, all -

Curious if anyone has any better info on availability of WORM tape
(specifically LTO Ultrium 3) for the iSeries rather than what I've
gotten from IBM.  What I have heard is essentially saying it will be
available soon, hopefully later this year.  No exact date, but
confirmation that it is in-pipeline.

The press release at lto.org and ultrium.com state that in October of
2004 the specification for WORM LTO was available.  So the hardware
manufacturers have had six months now.

I know the 3592-J1A drive would work for WORM storage (60 GB and 300 GB
carts) which is non-optical for now - but rather than restart our tape
investment, I'd like to stick with the same media footprint and be able
to leverage that existing investment in media for non-WORM requirements.

Comments or additional info would be appreciated - thanks!

Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Administrator
IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5
Kingland Systems Corporation
email - justin.haase@xxxxxxxxxxxx


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