On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 12:00:52PM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote:
> Stuart Anderson wrote:
> >     What is the current status of Sol10 support for mpxio and tape
> >drives (particularly FC 9940B drives)? It does not appear to be enabled
> >by default as is the case for FC disk devices.
> 
> The most recent info that I have is that we don't
> enable MPxIO for tape drives, at all.
> 
> 
> Personally, even if I could enable MPxIO for a
> tape drive, I certainly would not do so given
> the nature of the medium.

Probably a naive question, but what is the problem? If I have a
server with two paths to a tape drive and one path goes down why not
have the SCSI commands automatically use the remaining active path?

Thanks.

-- 
Stuart Anderson  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson
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