Re: SCSI interface to 3573-L2U

[John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx>]

We're using 5702s but that decision was made back in 2005 or thereabouts and
the box they're in is Power5-based.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:33 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 571A is good. Thing is though you can't use one on a POWER7 machine as
> it requires an IOP to drive this tape dive.  So the actual difference
> between this card and the 5702/5712 is little in practice. You also
> cannot do encryption though you didn't list that as a requirement so you
> might not care about that.
>
>  - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
>
> Info APAR IOPless tape support:
>
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&dc=DB550&dc=D100&q1=ii14355&uid=nas27f65244c38e39c46862573cb0041f343&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=all
>
> On 3/1/2011 1:23 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > What do you recommend as a SCSI interface to a 3573-L2U (aka TS3100) with
> > a LTO3 drive?  If you had a choice would you use a 571A, a 5702 or what?
> >
> > Drive Identity  1 (LUN)
> > Vendor ID       IBM
> > Product ID      ULT3580-TD3
> > Serial Number   1210335803
> > Firmware Revision       93G6
> > SCSI ID         4
> > SCSI Element Address    256
> > Control Path Drive      Yes
> > Data Compression        Yes
> > Interface Type  SCSI
> >
> >
> > Rob Berendt
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