Yes, two LTO4 drives would not be happy at all behind a 1Gb/s HBA, even two 1Gb/s HBA's are not enough to fully utilize the drives. I would imagine you could also run into driver/firmware issues with this combination since it's a very strange one but then again....it would probably work just slow.
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Michael Roesch <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > the drives are LTO4 ones. So the HBA would be the bottleneck > > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Stefan Folkerts < > [email protected] > > wrote: > > > If it is LTO1 or LTO2 you would be OK, if it is LTO3 or higher you are > > limiting your drivers with your HBA. > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Michael Roesch > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > we have an old HP MSL 6030 with two drives that share one 1 GBit FC > port. > > > Would that be enough to use with TSM? I have a feeling that says "no" > > but I > > > couldn't find any minimum FC requirements. > > > Anyone having more info? Maybe even an IBM technote? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Regards, > > > Michael Roesch > > > > > >
