You didn't mention what type of tape drives.   If they are LT02 and your
doing a lot of network based backups you may need an addition gigabit
card/more network cards to drive the tape drives.

Robert Maiello
Pioneer Data Systems


On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:24:39 -0400, Darren Chanowski
<darren.chanowski AT QUNARA DOT COM> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>We currently have a StorageTek L700 silo with 8 tape drives. The backup
>server is an Sun E450. Does anyone know if there is a limit or recommended
>limit to the number of tape drives that can be added to the silo before
>issues begin to arise with the server. In the silo there are two more
>available slots in its current configuration.
>
>Thanks,
>Darren
>
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