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Kelly_Stevenson
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13 years ago

NB 6.5.6 Solaris 10 and IBM ultrium 5/lto5 tape drives and multipathing

We have an IBM 3594 tape library with some dual port LTO5 tape drives. We have them connected to 2 different Brocade switches - so multipathed. The master and media servers are all running Solaris 10...
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Kelly_Stevenson
Level 4
13 years ago

I can't seem to find it in clear black and white if ibmtape on solaris works or not.

Issue is - st on Solaris does not support multipathing, ibmtape does, nb supports multipathing. So st with nb we are having issues. That is why I wanted to try ibmtape on solaris with NB.

So then if ibmtape on solaris with NB does not work, then technically - you cannot do tape drive multipathing with solaris and NB. You can only do it with AIX or HP-UX.

Does that sound right?