On 12/29/06, Crispin Hugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Any suggestions on ways we could have a tape drive 3490 in a remote location attached to our mainframe. We are talking about 1 thousand of miles. Speed is not important
Also makes a difference what you want to do with it (yeah, know it sounds like a dumb question). If you also need to be able to IPL from it, your options seem to get less (most channel extender things do not support IPL CCW's). If you're just talking about copying data from or to the tape and usage is rare enough to accept some manual steps, it might be an option to use a local PC with SCSI attached 3490 compatible device and some PC software to transport the data via IP. We played with a remote RJE solution like that. Rob
