i'd say as long as your server has one more expansion slot so that you
don't have to daisy chain them. some had told me that even if you can
chain them together that would degradate performance. (i did it anyway
since i don't have that luxuary slot in my current slim server.)


yu chen


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On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Berning, Tom wrote:

** We currently use and IBM 3466 to backup our enterprise, Novell, NT, and
** Unix.
** The tape library we use is and Exabyte 480 with 4 tape drives. Each tape
** drive
** has its own SCSI cable attached to a different SCSI adapter.  We would like
** to
** replace the 480 with the new Exabyte 690D DLT tape library with two tape
** drives.
** Can we utilize both libraries to migrate data to or would we have to set up
** multiple
** servers?  Could the 480 be used as a second tapepool to migrate data from
** the 690
** or would that not be feasible?
**
** Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
**
** Thanks
**
**
** Thomas R. Berning
** UNIX Systems Administrator
** Senco Products, Inc
** 8485 Broadwell Road
** Cincinnati, OH 45244
** Phone (513) 388-2857
** Fax     (513) 388-3333
** EMAIL tberning AT senco DOT com
**