The answer is NO. While STK drives do emulate 3590 to the operating system, STK does not have any drives that can actually read or write to a real 3590 cartridge. The last cartridge that was "interchangable" between STK and IBM was the good old 3480/3490 cartridge. Another reason why I believe it will stay around for a long time as a truly portable media.
Russell Witt CA-1 Level-2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy White Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 3:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: STK 9840 in 3590 compat mode Does anyone know this.... We have IBM 3590 H drives, if we send the media to a shop running with STK 9840 tape drives in 3590 Compat mode can they cut a tape. Then send the tape to us and we insert it into a IBM native 3590 will it be able to read it? I'm being told yes and no ;) Anyone have a definitive answer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
