In order for this to work if you have LVD 3580 drives in your 3583 library
your SAN Data Gateway Router 2108-R03 must have the LVD scsi connections.
Likewise if you have HVD 3580 drives in your 3583 library your SAN Data
Gateway router 2108-R03 must have the HVD scsi connections.  Unfortunately
in my SAN I have LVD 3580 drives and a HVD 2108-R03.
A showBox command from my SAN Data Gateway Router shows what type of scsi
connections it has.

lab_SDGWR > showBox
        _                                       _
 Front //|                                     //|
      // /------------------------------------// |
     // /                                    //  |
    // /                                    //   |
   // /                             /-----///    /
  ///====/                         /  1  ///    /
 /========================================/    /
 | [HVDT]                                 |   /
 |                               [FCOSW]  |  /
 | [HVDT]                                 | /
 |________________________________________|/  Back
HVDT = SCSI High Voltage Differential - Terminated
FCOSW = FibreChannel Optical Short Wave

SCSI-1 requires High Voltage Differential cable
SCSI-2 requires High Voltage Differential cable
FCOSW-1 slot-1 requires FibreChannel Multi-Mode (SW) cable

value = 0 = 0x0

Beyond that, it should work.

James Thompson

From: Pierre Chapus <pchapus AT FREE DOT FR>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: 3583 tape library sharing support
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:57:08 +0200

Hello, i read a white paper (december 2000) in which it is written that the
3583 LTO tape library is not supported by the TSM tape library sharing.
This is written in: "TSM support for library sharing with 358x
drives/libraries is planned to be available in the near future."

For now, i thought that all scsi library supported by TSM are also
supported on the SAN through an appropriate gateway. SAN route SCSI as is
and library commands are routed by the library manager itself and no other
one...

- Am i wrong?

- Has anybody tested a scsi 3583 through a gateway?

Thanks
Pierre Chapus

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