TS1120 drives use 3592 tapes only (JA and JB). 3590 tapes only work in 3590 drives. We have both in our shop. 3590 has a leader block. 3592 has a leader pin. They are not interchangeable.
Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361-5555 IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 08/18/2011 04:04:34 PM: > From: "Clark, Kevin" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 08/18/2011 04:05 PM > Subject: TS1120 Drives: will they support 10/20 GB J tapes ? > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > Hello all, > > Let me answer the first WHY ? - we have over 1000+ 3590 J tape > media and no time or money to migrate to high capacity tape media in 2011. > > So, I was hoping to get the FICON improvement + hardware encryption instantly. > > Anyone have actual experience with still reading and writing these > older tapes on the TS1120 drives > > Kevin > > > > This e-mail message and any attachments transmitted with it are > confidential and are intended solely for the use of its authorized > recipient(s). If you are not an intended or authorized recipient, > you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution > or taking any action in reliance on the information contained in > this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this message in > error or are not authorized to receive it, please immediately notify > the sender and delete the original message and all copies of it from > your computer. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, forwarding or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
