Yes, two LTO4 drives would not be happy at all behind a 1Gb/s HBA, even two
1Gb/s HBA's are not enough to fully utilize the drives.
I would imagine you could also run into driver/firmware issues with this
combination since it's a very strange one but then again....it would
probably work just slow.


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Michael Roesch
<michael.roesch AT gmail DOT com>wrote:

> Hi Stefan,
>
> the drives are LTO4 ones. So the HBA would be the bottleneck
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Stefan Folkerts <
> stefan.folkerts AT gmail DOT com
> > wrote:
>
> > If it is LTO1 or LTO2 you would be OK, if it is LTO3 or higher you are
> > limiting your drivers with your HBA.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Michael Roesch
> > <michael.roesch AT gmail DOT com>wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > we have an old HP MSL 6030 with two drives that share one 1 GBit FC
> port.
> > > Would that be enough to use with TSM? I have a feeling that says "no"
> > but I
> > > couldn't find any minimum FC requirements.
> > > Anyone having more info? Maybe even an IBM technote?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Michael Roesch
> > >
> >
>