Hello,
We use  hardware which is similar to yours, you should use either IBM's 
checked drivers or qualified  by MS testing as indicated at IBM site, 
additionally, higher level of drivers and\or Networker allows you to use 
features within the driver that makes drivers persistent across reboot ( 
as documented in newer release of networker and IBM release notes for the 
driver).
Note: Tivoli drivers ( this is an option within ibm drivers during 
install) are recommended as i recall that all the Tivoli driver does it 
disallows simultaneous access to tape drive should another application on 
the server wants it ( safer that way)
Additional persistent binding via HBA vendor and via setup from Adic is 
possible and  may be used.
HTH



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Greetings - 

We've been experimenting with persistent binding in our environment and 
have recently gotten it to work in our lab using the latest version of the 
"non-exclusive" IBM driver - the "exclusive" version does not work.  Our 
environment is:

 - Networker server version 7.4.4 running on a Windows 2003 sp2 server.
 - Several EDL based VTL's that emulate ADIC i2000 libraries with LTO3 
drives (all VTL drives are dedicated).
 - A physical ADIC i2000 library with LTO3 and LTO4 drives that use 
dynamic drive sharing.

The question for the forum is, is there anything about the non-exclusive 
version of the IBM driver that raises red flags?  We intend to do more 
testing, but if this is a dead end I'd rather spend the time elsewhere.

...and if/when we get this to work, I'm posting the process to the wiki, 
it's been...err...fun.

Thanks in advance
--brerrabbit

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