>I was told by someone at Sun/STK that ExHPDM doesn't buy you anything >with FICON attached tape. Since we still have ESCON attached host (MVS) >drives at this point, I haven't verified the statement. What does >anyone else know about this?
It will still buy you the ability to stream multiple backups to a single tape concurrently. We dump 2.7 Tb across 800+ volumes to 25 tapes (9840) using 6 drives in about 2 hours. Jeffrey Deaver, Senior Analyst, Systems Engineering 651-665-4231 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
