Re: TS3100 fibre attach tape on a 9406-525?

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Good?

Thx,

Jerry

On 9/9/2021 3:54 PM, Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis wrote:
> Rather certain that will work if you have new enough IBM i on the thing 
> which I believe will need to be i 6.1 or newer. Not sure V5R4 for 
> example would recognize LTO5, however it DOES work with LTO4 on V5R4.
>
>      - DrF
>
>
> On 9/9/2021 6:36 PM, Jerry Draper wrote:
> > We have a TS3100 fibre attach tape library system we want to put on an 
> > AS400 (9406-525) for backup redundancy.
> >
> > Currently they have a SCSI attach TS3100 tape library system.
> >
> > Seems like our card option would be a 5704 which seems to be the only 
> > fibre card option on the 525 series.
> >
> > This red book is old and it only goes up to LTO4.
> >
> > The fibre TS3100 drive is LTO5.  Anyone put an LTO5 on a 525?
> >
> > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp5052.pdf
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> > The fibre resource is:
> >
> >    Resource        Type-model Status                Text
> >    TAPMLB01         3573-020   Operational           Tape Library
> >      TAP01          3580-005   Operational           Tape Unit