Hi All,
               I am looking at putting in a solution for data path failover to 
my tape drives.  I have HP LTO6 Ultrium drives which support dual port failover.

I am comfortable that basic DPF using NPort and WWN address failover would work 
to protect the drive and the far switches/GBICs etc.  However, I am looking at 
providing a solution that Paths from an AIX host (Multiple adapters) across 2 
different fabrics to the 2 ports in the back of the tape drives.

I can see that this is supported in AIX using IBM Atape and produce a 
primary/Alt device to configure. However, I am using HP and convert the drives 
to IBM TSM Format, so there is no alt_pathing field available on a mt device.

So if you have any knowledge of how to configure this on the AIX/TSM end I 
would be very grateful.

Regards,
  Jason Barkes

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