Disk Devices; Special Bid Considerations - IBM Hub/Switch Installation Manual

Cartridge Type
Single-Length 3590
Double-Length 3590
Single-Length 3590E
Double-Length 3590E
Single-Length 3590H
Double-Length 3590H
Note that the PVL's choices are made at startup time, and are not made on a mount-to-mount basis.
Therefore a single-length 3590E cartridge will never mount on a double-length 3590E drive if a
single-length 3590E drive was configured in the system when the PVL was started.
2.4.4

Disk Devices

HPSS supports both locally attached devices connected to a single node via a private channel and
HiPPI attached disk devices.
Locally attached disk devices that are supported include those devices attached via either SCSI,
SSA or Fibre Channel. For these devices, operating system disk partitions of the desired size must
be created(e.g.,AIX logical volume or Solaris disk partition), and the raw device name must be used
when creating the Mover Device configuration (see Chapter 5: Managing HPSS Devices and Drives
(page 95) in the HPSS Management Guide for details on configuring storage devices).
2.4.5

Special Bid Considerations

Some hardware and hardware configurations are supported only by special bid. These items are
listed below:
• IBM 3580 Drive
• IBM 3584 Tape Libraries
• ADIC AML Tape Libraries
HPSS Installation Guide
Release 4.5, Revision 2
Table 2-1 Cartridge/Drive Affinity Table
Drive Preference List
Single-Length 3590
Double-Length 3590
Single-Length 3590E
Double-Length 3590E
Single-Length 3590H
Double-Length 3590H
Double-Length 3590
Double-Length 3590E
Double-Length 3590H
Single-Length 3590E
Double-Length 3590E
Double-Length 3590H
Double-Length 3590E
Double-Length 3590H
Single-Length 3590H
Double-Length 3590H
Double-Length 3590H
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