[Info-vax] FC Tape Library

[Mark Berryman]

On 5/6/18 3:01 AM, Colin Butcher wrote:
> MRU works with FC tape libraries. I have designed and built several 
> clusters using MRU to control MSL4048 libraries, with several 
> generations of LTO drives, preferably drives with two FC connectors for 
> best availability.
> 
> The robot in the MSL is reached via the FC connected tape drives. The 
> robot should appear as a $2$GGA<nnn> device and the tape drives as 
> $2$MGA<nnn> devices. The unit numbers are established when the library 
> and drives are hooked up to VMS with SYSMAN "IO FIND_WWID" and "IO 
> CREATE_WWID" commands. The information is held in SYS$DEVICES.DAT.
> 
> The latest MRU kit that I know of is ROBOTE02018 for HPE OpenVMS V8.4 on 
> Alpha and Integrity. It's a VMSINSTAL kit, not PCSI.
> 
> Cheers, Colin.

Thanks very much, everyone.

The tape library I will be receiving is an MSL2024 with an Ultrium 1840 
FC tape drive.  It doesn't sound like there will be any issues.

Mark Berryman