hi, > Hello all... > > I'm researching moving my TSM server from AIX to W2K. My > tape library is a > Magstar 3757-L18, six drives, each pair on its own SCSI bus. > > In the Installation and User's Guide for the IBM TotalStorage > Tape Device > Drivers, chapter 36 - W2K Device Driver Management, the last > sentence in > the Installation Overview states: > > "All drives accessible from a medium changer must be on the > same physical > SCSI bus as the changer."
this is true, if you want to use removeable storage manager (RSM) with tsm it should be no problem using different scsi buses. I hope this helps. thomas > Am I misunderstanding this, or is it wrong? Is this saying I > must put all > six drives on one SCSI bus? > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > Thanks... Ken >