3490-F11
Hi all, Does anyone out there know how to gen a 3490-F11 on an OS/390 R10 system so that it will read and write 3480 18-track format tapes? This is the equipment: (2) IBM 3490-F11 Cartridge Tape Units (1) IBM FC0 rack with a 3000 controller (1) IBM 3220 ESCON feature Thanks for any help you can give, Sylvia Sylvia Gorman Associate Director Enterprise Systems Support Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115 815 753-9451 phone 815 753-2555 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: 3490-F11
I'm not a hardware expert but my understanding is that a 3490 will read 18 track (3480) with no problem. It will not ever write 18 track, only 36 track. Sylvia Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi all, Does anyone out there know how to gen a 3490-F11 on an OS/390 R10 system so that it will read and write 3480 18-track format tapes? This is the equipment: (2) IBM 3490-F11 Cartridge Tape Units (1) IBM FC0 rack with a 3000 controller (1) IBM 3220 ESCON feature __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html