Actually, "Yes and No"...
Yes, FLEX supports the ESCON attached 3590s. We have several customers
using them.
No, FLEX does NOT support SCSI attached 3590s. Apparently the 3590s use
a rather 'non-standard' SCSI protocol that would require significant effort
for FSI to support. We have had several requests for this support,
however. Perhaps some day when FSI doesn't have any higher priority
projects they might get to this one.....
Mike
C. M. (Mike) Hammock
Sr. Technical Support
zFrame & IBM zSeries Solutions
(404) 643-3258
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> Is possible to connect 3590 tape drives to a FLEX-ES system ? If so,
can
> it also be attached to STK 9840 tape draives as well?
If you have ESCON adapters on the drives and ESCON adapters in the Flex
box, sure. I also think that Flex will support the SCSI 3590s but
haven't tried this. I don't think Flex supports FICON yet (or at least I
haven't heard anything about it...)
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