Kevin,

you provoked many answers to wrong thread. So get an answer on this one as
well.
Facts about 3584:
you can have HVD, LVD or FC drives or mix of them;
you can have from 1 to 72 drives;
you can use one or dual channel SCSI, integrated or on slot;
you can connect drives one per bus, two or even more if not pay
attention to recommendations;
you can access SCSI drives through SAN gateway (FC-SCSI);
you can have direct attached FC drives (or SAN gates), connect through
hub or fabric;
etc., etc. ...
Zillions of options and all are up to you. All (or nearly all) are working
and can serve you. Choose one which you think should fit to your needs and
then ask is it good. But there is no simple/short answer to your generic
question. And if you search list archives you can see many people's
configurations.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant




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Subject:        IBM 3584 L32 LTO configuration question

I have an IBM 3584 L32 LTO library.  It has 4 drives.

I have it connected to an HP LH3 server running NT 4.0 and TSM 4.2.

I have 1 Symbios SYM22910 SCSI controller card with 2 channels connected
to
this library.  One channel is interfacing with two of the drives + the
library and the other channel is interfacing with the other two drives.

I'm interested in hearing what other IBM 3584 L32 LTO library users have
done to configure this library to their NT TSM servers.  I've been told
that
I can and cannot connect this LTO library in many other ways and I'm
interested in what others have *successfully* done.

Thanks in advance for all responses!

Kevin Fletcher
SSCI

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