RE: System Migration/No Tape Drive Compatibility

["Chris Bipes" <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a brand new 5702 card that was purchase for our LTO-2 drive and
never installed as we had a spare port on an existing 5702 card used for
our optical juke box.  Still sealed in the original antistatic bag.

What is it worth?

Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jack Kingsley
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 10:53 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: System Migration/No Tape Drive Compatibility

I am looking to get a 2749 card and install it then write to LTO2 then
read
it using the new LTO4 drive.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Lukas Beeler
<lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 19:05, Jack Kingsley
<iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Disk storage is not an issue on the destination system, I was
actually
> going
> > to do what LUKAS wrote to start out then realized I would be out of
disk
> > before I started.  Can you create 1 save file then append
information to
> it,
> > I see a oversavf command, so far no luck wiht that.  I recall an old
> taatool
> > where you could save many libraries but I don't have that either.
>
> Well, what kind of tape drives do you have? If you don't have an
> exotic combination, maybe your BP can help you.
>
> I keep a SLR 30/60 around just for that reason - i DUPTAP tapes from
> the SLR30/60 systems to virtual tape, send them to an LTO4 system and
> DUPTAP them back to real tape. This has the advantage that you can
> convert MLR8/16 tapes from very old systems which couldn't save to
> virtual tape even if they wanted to to new LTO4 media, from which you
> can restore.
>
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