RE: Two partitions, one tape drive

["Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

5638 sounds familiar. I'll check this out when I can get connected. 

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jack Kingsley
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 1:30 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Two partitions, one tape drive

If you vary it off on one lpar, you should see it go live on the other.  I
have a 57CB storage controller, the device is a 5638 lto drive and it works
this way, again your model and setups may be different.

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> List,
>
> A client of mine just got a new machine that their now infamous software
> vendor ordered for them. It is divided into two partitions, and has one
> tape
> drive.
>
> I don't have access to it right now, but their vendor told them to just
> configure a virtual tape drive and they could then toggle the tape between
> the two partitions.
>
> I told them that this wasn't the purpose of the virtual tape feature, but
I
> have never actually set up a box with this configuration. Google is
showing
> me stuff dated around 2005. Any pointers?
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul Nelson
> Cell 708-670-6978
> Office 512-392-2577
> nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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