I have a new 3584-L32 library (6 weeks) and it has the Storwatch Expert
S/W and it has (8) 3580 drives, directly FC-AL attached.

David Longo

>>> CNEUM90 AT ENTERGY DOT COM 02/19/02 08:57AM >>>

>Having said that...  my IBM storage representative says that the 3494
>library is a more industrial tape library intended for larger enterprise
>environments than the Ultrium 3584 tape library.  IBM offers and supports
>extended utilities for the 3494, such as StorWatch Expert software.  Also,
>the 3494 library and 3590-E1A tape drives can be FC-AL attached.
>Currently,
>the Ultrium 3580s can not.




Regards,

Chris Neumeyer