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Notethat 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
HPSSsupports 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,
SSAor Fibre Channel. For these devices, operating system disk partitions of the desired size must
becreated(e.g.,AIX logical volume or Solaris disk partition), and the raw device name must be used
whencreating the Mover Device configuration (see Chapter 5: ManagingHPSS Devices and Drives
(page 95) in theHPSS 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
Single-Length 3590 Single-Length 3590
Double-Length 3590
Single-Length 3590E
Double-Length 3590E
Single-Length 3590H
Double-Length 3590H
Double-Length 3590 Double-Length 3590
Double-Length 3590E
Double-Length 3590H
Single-Length 3590E Single-Length 3590E
Double-Length 3590E
Double-Length 3590H
Double-Length 3590E Double-Length 3590E
Double-Length 3590H
Single-Length 3590H Single-Length 3590H
Double-Length 3590H
Double-Length 3590H Double-Length 3590H

Table 2-1 Cartridge/Drive Affinity Table

Cartridge Type Drive Preference List