Ibm 7206 Model Vx2 80 Gb External Vxa-2 Tape Device - IBM eserver i5 Handbook

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IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3590
IBM 3490E
Different tape drives can be installed in different frames in the same 3494 library.
The IBM TotalStorage 3494 Automated Tape Library supports up to 64 TCP/IP
open system hosts and the attachment of up to 128 3592 or 92 3590 open
systems tape drives. The 3494 supports heterogeneous attachment of multiple
IBM and non-IBM hosts including IBM Eserver zSeries, S/390, IBM Eserver
pSeries, RS/6000, IBM Eserver i5, iSeries, Sun, HP, and Intel-compatible
servers running Microsoft Windows. Also available is the IBM TotalStorage
Enterprise High Availability Tape Frames (HA1 Models). The HA1 Frames
provide a second tape cartridge accessory and library manager for high library
availability and performance.
All this, in addition to remote console support, Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP) reporting capabilities, multi-host attachment, and modular
design, assist in making the 3494 flexible, easy to use, and well-suited for
automated tape library solutions.
For additional information about the 3494 Enterprise Tape Library, see the
following Web site:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/storage/tape/3494/index.html

IBM 7206 Model VX2 80 GB External VXA-2 Tape Device

The IBM 7206 Model VX2 External Tape
Drive is a VXA-2 Packet Drive that features
capacity of 80 and 160 GB (native and
compressed) and six and 12 MB/sec transfer
rates (native and compressed). The VXA
Packet Technology provides a digital solution
to the long-standing mechanical problem of
head-to-tape alignment, a common problem
which causes conventional tape storage
products to trade off costly mechanical
complexity with data restore integrity.
VXA Packet Tape Drives write and read data in individually addressed packets,
accomplished by the heads sweeping the entire face of the tape rather than the
conventional method of sequentially tracing every track embedded on the tape.
During a read operation, discrete data packets are dynamically gathered and
reassembled in the VXA buffer, resulting in dramatically higher data restore
integrity with reduced cost. VXA Packet Technology eliminates the need for
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