With the exception of the extended-length 3490/E cartridges, they are the same media. A standard length 3480 cartridge can be used on a old non-IDRC 3480; 3480's with IDRC and 3490/E drives. It is physically the same cartridge.
Russell Witt -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Kochis Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 1:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: 3480 IDRC drives using 3490E media I work in a shop that only has 3480 IDRC drives (Memorex & IBM) and they are looking to purchase new media as the 3480 media is producing many IO errors. Does anyone know if IBM supports writing to 3490E cartridges (re-initialized to 18 track) using 3480 IDRC drives? I have successfully run a few test cases, but I do not want to instruct the client to purchase 3490E media without first confirming it is a supported environment. Thanks for any information you can provide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
