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Re: 5704 Tape GURU question (Yes Jim you may answer :o)

Well then it seems the consensus is that it should work but we only see one 3583. We see the two drives it has but only the one library.
Now I should tell you that the libraries and drives are NOT IBM equipment but stuff (Falcon SAN storage) emulating IBM. I intentionally left that out so that the discussion wouldn't head immediately down the 'it must be the Falcon's fault' path. So far the Falcon guys are impressing me as the 'masters of smoke and mirrors' though once we got the one 3583 to show up that one is working very nicely. 

  Thank You,

     - Larry

Sue Baker wrote:


wrote on Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:38:00 GMT:


  Is is possible to connect to Multiple 3583 tape libraries
through a single FC #5704 fiber tape controller?
Yes, the 5704 should be able to see up to 16 target devices. Since the 3583 has a limit of 6 drives and to the iSeries it counts as 7 targets, if I remember correctly, you should be able to see at a minimum 2 of them and possibly the first drive in a 3rd. Or it might be that the "robot" part of the 3583 isn't counted as a device so you'd simply see all the tape drives. The way in which you get your fibre switch set up is very important in determing what the iSeries will and won't see.

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