Bruce Black wrote:
We have an outside agency that says they can accept 3580 carts, but not
3590 carts. We have a Magstar Robot and we create 3590 by default.
Sorry for the simple question, but can we create 3580's and if so, is
just a change in JCL? Do we have to "initialize" some of our 3590 to
3580? Or buy some?
I never heard of 3580 so I think they probably meant 3480. 3480 carts
were used on the 3480 and 3490 drives.
3480 carts cannot be used on 3590s, and vice versa, they are not
compatible. If you have only Magstar (3590), you can't create 3480 carts.
3580 does exist.
However it is non-mainframe device.
See:
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/storage/tape/3580/index.html
BTW: 3590 can be tricky!
There are three models of drive (B, E, H) and two models of tape (HPCT,
EHPCT).
You can read a tape recorde in downlevel drive, but you cannot write it.
You can re-format the tape and use it for output (writing), but the tape
will be non-readable on downlevel drive.
In other words such scenario (different drive models on each site)
allows you to make one-way data exchange.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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