ADSM-L

Re: Choosing a medium-sized DLT tape library

1998-04-02 19:58:48
Subject: Re: Choosing a medium-sized DLT tape library
From: Paul Zarnowski <vkm AT CORNELLC.CIT.CORNELL DOT EDU>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 19:58:48 -0500
In addition to STK & Breece Hill, ATL has some robots in the range you are
looking for.  In fact, they have quite a selection of DLT robots.  I am
told that they sell more high-end DLT robots than anyone else.  One robot
in your range would be the ATL 7100, which has 100 slots in it.
..Paul

At 01:50 PM 4/2/98 +0100, Steven Bridge wrote:
>We are about to put up ADSM v3 on an RS/6000 F40 running AIX 4.3 and
>are currently considering our choice of tape library.
>It is likely to be a 2 DLT7000 drive model with between 40 and 100 slots.
>
>I would prefer to use a library that existing ADSM users already have
>experience with. Therefore I would be interested in anyone admitting
>to the use of one of the following :
> StorageTek 9714
> ATL 520 series library
> ATL 7100 series library ( recently added to the supported devices list I
see )
>
>Of particular interest would be any users in the UK with experience of
>hardware support & maintenance for these models.
>
>Also, last summer there was discussion on this list concerning the
>unreliability of DLT7000 drives. Are these problems still persisting or
>have they been sorted out by subsequent firmware revisions ?
>
>+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
> Steven Bridge     Systems Group, Information Systems, EISD
>                          University College London
> email: s.bridge AT ucl.ac DOT uk                   tel: +44 171-504 2794
>
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