Joshua,

I've heard this before, but I couldn't find anyone at IBM to confirm it.
SO.........

I've been running tape and dasd thru the same FC adapter for about a year
now.  Traffic goes from rs6k to an IBM2109 (brocade) switch and then splits
from there.  I suspect the switch is handling the arbirated loop (3590) and
point to point (ess aka shark) communication conversions.

Gotchas?

Al Barth
Zurich Scudder Investments




                                                                                
                                   
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Not only is sending disk and tape data across the same FC card a bad
idea, I believe IBM doesn't even support that configuration.



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