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Good thinking Jim.
Unload/reloads between systems with incompatible tape drives is always a
challenge. At best you can hope for is some friendly with every tape
drive known to man attached to their system to dup tapes for you. You can
bet that will be a serious delay in your upgrade. That and you have to
time it for when they aren't busy.
Is the ability to do SAS attachment pretty much a given with systems
still? If you had a choice between fiber tape and SAS tape which would
you choose? Me, fiber. But we have the switch and all which really
helps. Not that it should make a big diff to a single lpar, single drive
in the library shop. And James might already have the SAS capability.
Even if he later had to dump SAS there are used fiber LTO5's to be had so
he wouldn't obsolete his tapes.
There have been a lot of announcements about IBM pulling LTO5 drives from
the market but James doesn't strike me as someone reluctant to purchase on
the used market.
Rob Berendt
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