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Conference stkhlm::magtape

Title:MAGNETIC TAPEDRIVES
Moderator:STKHLM::GJOHNSSON
Created:Mon Sep 21 1987
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3775
Total number of notes:13147

3640.0. "TZ887 on HSZ40??" by MUNICH::REIN (How come holes in SWISS CHEESE??) Wed Jan 29 1997 15:11

    This is cross posted from SLS notesfile:
    
     Hallo,
    
        one of my customers wants to setup his TZ88 to be driven on a HSZ40
        controller as a jukebox, but in the spd I cant find anything
    mentioned
        about that type of controller.
    
        Is there any reason behind?
    
        Or is it the same setup than on HSJ ??
    
        kind regards
    
        Volker
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3640.1NABETH::alanDr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.Wed Jan 29 1997 20:4020
	The setup is notably different in a few ways.  On the HSJ you
	add the loader, then a pass-thru and finally a disk unit.  On
	the HSZ running the firmware you add either a passthrough or
	a loader (I don't remember which) and then associate that with
	a logical unit.  The tape side is similar.

Ramoth> sho dev full

Name          Type                      Port Targ  Lun        Used by
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

TAPE140       passthrough tape             1    4    0        P0
          DEC      TZ867    (C) DEC 4318
LOADER867     passthrough loader           1    4    1        P1
          DEC      TZ Media Changer 4318

	The other problem is one of support and to the best of my
	knowledge SLS hasn't tested with HSZ connected tapes.  I
	don't think any of the VMS Storage Management products that
	deal with tapes have tested with an HSZ.