Is it even possible to boot from a fibre-attached tape drive? At DR tests with 
a HPUX servers, it wasn't possible to use the Ignite tape in fibre-attached 
tape drive. A SCSI-attached drive was required to boot from.

Kurt

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Harris [mailto:Steve_Harris AT HEALTH.QLD.GOV DOT AU]
>Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 6:39 PM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: 3590 Partitioning
>
>
>HI All,
>
>This is  a 3590 question  rather than TSM as such, but this is the best
>forum for it.
>
>
>I need to take system images of several AIX boxes each week to SAN Attached
>3590E drives in my 3494.
>It seems like overkill to devote a whole 3590 tape to each image as they
>will only be a few gig each.
>
>I stumbled across some doc which implies that a 3590 tape can be partitioned
>into smaller segments which can then be used independently. (see items 36
>and 38 on the tapeutil menu).  However, this is old doc, and I assume the
>feature is from the early days of 3590 when 10GB was an enormous amount of
>storage.
>
>Has anyone used this partitioning feature? in what circumstances?
>Are there any gotchas?
>
>Thanks
>
>Steve Harris
>AIX and TSM Admin
>Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia.
>
>
>
>
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