Re: booting from fibre tape drives

From: Wesley Joyce (wjoyce@UVI.EDU)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 08:01:17 EDT


I have tried booting from a Sysback tape using a SCSI Ultrium 3581 (rmt1),
no luck. However, I was able to boot from my internal DDS4 (rmt0) then
choose a different install device, rmt1. Again, this applies to Sysback,
the latest one that has been branded by TSM.

At 06:37 AM 4/29/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>Good morning all:
>I was ask a question last night:
>Can you boot a server from a fibre tape drive? I tried this on an S80
>with a 3494 fibre drive and the system didn't see the device.
>So now I ask the you has anyone done this or can it be done? If so
>what are the step needed to do this.
>As always I look forward to the replies and thank you in advance.
>Vince
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