Re: Remote Tape drives

2007-01-03 Thread Rob van der Heij
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

Re: Remote Tape drives

2007-01-03 Thread Crispin Hugo
Message- From: Stracka, James (GTI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 January 2007 13:57 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Remote Tape drives We used a vendor and the for this. Pay attention to MITIME setting for those drives. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM

Re: Remote Tape drives

2007-01-03 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
and at the agreed speeds. Jim -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crispin Hugo Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:02 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Remote Tape drives

Re: Remote Tape drives

2007-01-03 Thread Crispin Hugo
January 2007 14:08 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Remote Tape drives Crispin, My mind and fingers were running in different directions at different speeds. We used an outside vendor for our remote tape drives. Make sure you pay attention to the MITIME setting for drives and your

Re: Remote Tape drives

2007-01-02 Thread Paul Raulerson
There are lots of ways to do that, depending upon what it is attached to and what (if any) budget you have to do it with. Some more details would help get you better suggestions. : ) -Paul ---BeginMessage--- Chaps, Any suggestions on ways we could have a tape drive 3490 in a remote location

Re: Remote Tape drives

2007-01-02 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 12/29/2006 at 06:16 GMT, 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 Speed is *always* important. :-) There

Re: Remote Tape drives

2007-01-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
There are channel extension boxes that will do this. McData is one vendor that comes to mind, but I'm sure there are others. Dennis I'll tell you a secret: When your number comes up, you're going to go. Well, every morning I get up, I change