We are in the process of purchasing an IBM 3200 Tape Library with 4 - LTO4 half-height SAS drives. Our IBM sales rep and tech support rep are telling us that we need 4 - 5912 HBAs, one for each drive, to support this configuration in our IBM 9117-MMA (p570) host.
>From our review of the tech specs it looks like the 5912 Adapter (PCI-X DDR Dual -x4 SAS Adapter) should be able to support all four SAS tape drives from one card using 2- YO cables in the same way it can support 4 disk drives. Can anyone point us to someone or some docs that can give us more information. Larry Peifer San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station AIX System Admin TSM system Admin
