RE: LTO tape drives

["Pete Massiello" <pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You don't tell us what the new system is.  As Chris said, you can't read an
LTO1 tape on an LTO4 (Read only goes back 2 generations).  Also, the H11 is
a high Voltage SCSI LTO1 tape drive, which means you are connecting this to
a 2749 tape controller which requires an IOP.  Therefore, you couldn't put
that adapter on a Power7 machine. 

	Pete

Pete Massiello
iTech Solutions
http://www.itechsol.com

Add iTech Solutions on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=126431824120
Add iTech Solutions on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2206093


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Draper
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 5:29 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: LTO tape drives

We have a 3580-H11 tape drive on an older system.

We have a 3580-L43/S43 tape drive on a new system.

I cannot read a tape from the old system on the new system tape drive. 
It reports a tape media issue.  Density?

I cannot move the H11 to the new system for lack of IOA resources.

Is there an easy way to resolve this?

Jerry