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[Veritas-bu] Fiber Drive Question

2007-02-14 16:03:13
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Fiber Drive Question
From: estrom8 at yahoo.com (Erik Strom)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:03:13 -0800 (PST)
Has anyone heard about a table of wwn/addresses located inside of a 9940B or
similiar fiber tape drives? I heard a rumor but cannot find any documentation
that said,.

The tape drive has a table of addresses that it will allow read/write access to
the tape drive. There is only 16 slots available for these entries. This means
that in order for a 17th media server to access this drive that it must wait
for one of the existing 16 to drop out of the table. This is suppose to be the
explaination as to why tape drives seem to disappear or become no longer
functional to a media server.

I've heard stranger things but I wanted to see if this is an urban myth or if
someone can supply me with documentation about this.


 
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