Jan Not a problem at all. TSM does not care how they are attached. TSM depends completely on the operating system for the intelligence on the attaching. The 3494 is also intelligent enough to know if someone else is using the drive that it can't. Drive map all the SAN drives??? What you could do which is relatively inexpensive is attach your 3590's to San Data Gateways which attach to the SAN and then they would all be SAN attached. Good luck Becky
-----Original Message----- From: Norback, Jan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mixed SCSI/SAN drives in LAN free, is that possible? Hi, I have been asked by my customer if it is possible to mix SCSI and SAN attached drives on TSM servers that are to perform LAN free backup. I know that I need to drivemapp all the SAN drives but what will TSM do with the SCSI attached drives, is it cleaver enough to make sure that it doesn't mount any tapes for LAN free backups and restores in those drives? Why not upgrade all drives? Money, money... This setup: -TSM server 4.2 on AIX 4.3.3 -3494 libraries -3590E tapes (SCSI and SAN) Regards, Jan Norback Tivoli Certified Consultant: ADSM/TSM IBM Cert. Adv. Technical Expert RS/6000 AIX Atos Origin-IT (MS/DS/OSS Unix) VA-106, PO-box 218, 5600 MD Eindhoven, The Netherlands Groenewoudseweg 1 5621 BA Eindhoven, The Netherlands Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +31 (0)40-2780289 Mobile: +31 (0)6-12994492 Fax : +31 40 2783962
