On 12/4/2006 11:01 AM, Dave Markham wrote:
> Guys has anyone heard of trying to have resilient Tape drives over
> fiber? Someone came and asked me saying a new install was going to be
> specced having dual hba's providing 2 paths to the fiber attached tape
> drives. Im talking Solaris here and an L500 with LTO2 drives.

I've never heard of this being done.  Multipathing disk drives happens 
all the time, but never multipathing tape drives (except for VMS where 
the OS just naturally gets it right as it does just about everything else.)

        .../Ed

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