We have an ATL dual P4000 hybrid with 6 SDLT NDMP drives and 4 SDLT SCSI
drives, and are mostly happy with it (an ATL Field Engineer is onsite right
now dealing with a hardware issue :( ).

The NDMP drives speak gigabit, so the library isn't connected directly to the
filer at all, just via the network.  The NetApps just see the NDMP drives as a
remote device.  We previously had a <mumble> jukebox with DLT7000s connected
directly to the filers, and had a few occasions where we had to reboot a filer
to fix a hung drive.

The SCSI side is used for the other Unix/NT hosts.  Software is Legato Networker.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Hardin [mailto:geoff.hardin@dalsemi.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 8:52 AM
To: Barry Lustig
Cc: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: Jukeboxes for filers

Barry,
   We use an ATL P3000 library with 16 DLT7000 drives.  We use
Workstation Solutions QuickRestore (now Reliaty Backup) to back
everything up.  We have 15 filers being backed up and the library is
starting to get overwhelmed.  We are considering the new SDLT drives,
since they are backwards read compatible with DLT.  It's been a great
solution for over two years now; only change I would have made would
have been to wait for the P3000 GbE library.