I would like to know if it is at all possible to attach a DLT7000 tape drive using a single-ended SCSI interface to an F520 filer.
We just attached a overland 10way dlt7000 stacker to our 540 running 4.3 with no problems. Our supplier advised us to replace the narrow scsi card with a wide one as they had had problems with controlling the drives with the narrow ones. The only minor annoyance is not being able to tell tell dump/restore to fetch tape x and backup onto that.
Chris
Okay, I understand that the loader robotics cannot be controlled by the native dump/restore commands from the netapp, except for the library unit supplied by Breece Hill.
What I would like to know is about a single DLT drive. Can such a tape drive with the single ended interface be seen by a netapp?
Pradeep.