Hi Kelly,
I'm sorry to say that you were given the wrong response from NetApp today, so let me clear this up and apologize for any inconvenience caused.
When engineering looked at the config on your site a *wrong* assumption was made and it was thought that there were 2 tape devices each on separate cards, which is not a supported config.
The good news is that your configuration *IS* supported since you have 2 tape devices on a single SCSI tape adapter.
In our next Data ONTAP release 5.3 we will be supporting 2 SCSI tape adapters on the F760 & F630 platforms. And since we support 2 tape drives per SCSI adapter this will allow upto 4 tape drives to be supported on these filers or 2 tape devices each on separate cards.
Cheers, Grant
-----Original Message----- From: Kelly Wyatt [mailto:saskww@wnt.sas.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 1:08 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: One tape *drive* supported on 5.1.2???
We have just been informed by Network Appliance that only *one* tape *drive* per adapter is supported on 5.1.2. (We have been running with 1 adapter/2 drives since August on 4.3 and then 5.0 and now on 5.1.2 since we upgraded.)
Was anyone else aware of this? This came about due to a call we placed when removing a stuck tape rebooted the filer... -------
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