Re: Does V5R1 support 9347 tape drive?

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can't belive they dropped support for the 2440 tape drives.

They are only 30 years old at this point..... Sheeezzzz

and no more 8" diskette support !!!!

(you can still use a certain model)





bdietz@3x.com wrote:
> 
> I know Al answered your question.  I wanted to share the following list of
> other unsupported hardware.
> 
> 
>http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/support/planning/v5r1hardware.html
> 
> Bryan Dietz
> 
> Glenn Birnbaum <gbirnba@rei.com>
> Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> 07/19/2001 07:09 PM
> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L
> 
> 
>         To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Does V5R1 support 9347 tape drive?
> 
> I hate to ask about this piece of you-know-what tape drive, but I thought
> I
> heard that it's not supported under V5R1.  But when i look at the
> CRTDEVTAP
> command on a V5R1 system, it stilll lists 9347 under device types. Anyone
> know for sure.....
> 
> Glenn
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