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

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Appreciate your help.

Thx,

Jerry

On 9/9/2021 7:02 PM, Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis wrote:
> 7.1 good on Fiber attached LTO5.
>     - L
>
> On 9/9/2021 6:59 PM, Jerry Draper wrote:
> > This site is on V7R1.
> >
> > 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