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

["Larry \"DrFranken\" Bolhuis" <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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