Thanks for the info! This library will only be attached to a single server so 
we're going with a direct connection. There will be multiple FC connections, so 
now I know to distribute them across all IO blades with attached drives.

Thanks,
Thomas


I believe the firmware is 575A-GS00101



Wheeler, Gideon wrote:
> Hi,
> No cross blade routing is allowed So the masking will only work within
> each blade. This doesn't prevent you from presenting 4 tapes drives down
> 1 FC port.
> To present more tape drives to a host you need to zone them in at the
> switch side.
> What version of the firmware are you using ?
> 
> Hope this helps
> Gideon
> 
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> I've been given the task of taking a used fibre channel Scalar i2000 and
> putting it into production. I have no documentation except for the users
> guide I've downloaded from Quantum's web site.
> 
> Does each FC I/O blade operate as an independent FC switch? As a test I
> have a host attached to the FC1 port on IO blade 3. The LUN masking
> wizard only allows me to map tape drives attached to IO blade 3, but
> cannot map or see tape drives on IO blade 4 or 5.  Is there a way to
> make LUN masking work across IO blades, or are connections limited to
> the same IO blade?
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