Thanks, Thomas, this helps.

I'll have to get familiar with RSM.

Anyone know which driver, TotalStorage or RSM, is the preferred method for
connecting TSM with this tape library?

Ken





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hi,

> Hello all...
>
> I'm researching moving my TSM server from AIX to W2K.  My
> tape library is a
> Magstar 3757-L18, six drives, each pair on its own SCSI bus.
>
> In the Installation and User's Guide for the IBM TotalStorage
> Tape Device
> Drivers, chapter 36 - W2K Device Driver Management, the last
> sentence in
> the Installation Overview states:
>
> "All drives accessible from a medium changer must be on the
> same physical
> SCSI bus as the changer."

this is true, if you want to use removeable storage manager (RSM)
with tsm it should be no problem using different scsi buses.

I hope this helps.

thomas

> Am I misunderstanding this, or is it wrong?  Is this saying I
> must put all
> six drives on one SCSI bus?
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks... Ken
>